Publilius Syrus Quotes - Page 17

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• At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

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  Men, Mind, Rising

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• Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

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  Procrastination, Opportunity, Deliberate

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• Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

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  Friendship, Betrayal, Allowance

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• The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

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  Leadership, Men, Virtue

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• There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.

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  Secret, Delight, Pleasure

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• To-day is the pupil of yesterday

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  Yesterday, Pupils

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• A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

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  Enemy, Debt, Loan

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• We may with advantage at times forget what we know.

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  May, Forget, Advantage

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 234, 1856.

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• Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.

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  Advice, Looks, Tough

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• Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

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  Power, Body, Lions

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• It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

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  Add, Reputation, Easier

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• Union gives strength to the humble.

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  Humble, Giving, Unity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 827-28, Maxims, 1922.

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• Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

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  Grief, Unhappy, Language

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• The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

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  Lowest, Conditions, Highest

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• We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

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  Desire, Ought

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 559, 1856.

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• If you can walk, you can run.

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  Music, Dance, Running

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• It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.

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  Sometimes, Forget, Knows

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• An evil gain equals a loss.

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  Loss, Evil, Gains

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 306, Maxims, 1922.

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• Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

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  Giving, Loan, Fortune

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• Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.

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  Dark, Sides, Dark Side

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• A great man may commence life in a hovel.

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  Men, May, Great Men

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• Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

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  Past, Men, Judging

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• The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

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  Scar, Conscience, Wounds

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• For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

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  Causes, Virtuous, Good Causes

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 207,

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• He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy.

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  Wrath, Enemy, Overcoming

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