Take care that no one hates you justly.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Hatred, Integrity, Hate
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Pleasure
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Guilt
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Gossip
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Medicine
Unless you make allowances for your friend’s foibles, you betray your own.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Friendship
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Silence, Regret
A rolling stone can gather no moss.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Change
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Luck, Fortune
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Anxiety, Fear
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Failures, Role models, Mistakes
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Necessity
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
—Publilius Syrus
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Judging, Judgment, Judges, Justice
Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Leaders, Leadership
When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Criticism
It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Wisdom
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Enemies, Enemy
It is well to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Caution
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Questions
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Pleasure
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
—Publilius Syrus
Friendship neither finds or makes equals.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Friendship
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Kindness
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Society
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
—Publilius Syrus
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Fortune, Luck
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Time Management
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Wisdom
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Honor
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Catullus Roman Latin Poet
- Martial Ancient Roman Latin Poet
- Ausonius Latin Poet, Rhetorician
- Seneca the Elder (Marcus Annaeus Seneca) Roman Rhetorician
- Quintilian Roman Rhetorician, Literary Critic
- Virgil Roman Poet
- Cornelius Nepos Roman Historian
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Roman Poet
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Roman Poet
- Julius Caesar Roman Ruler
Leave a Reply