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Publilius Syrus Quotes - Page 5

All Quotes Age Anger Betrayal Change Character Conscience Crime Death Evil Failure Fear Flattery Friends Friendship Giving Greed Grief Guilt Happiness Hate Hatred Honor Injury Innocence Inspirational Journey Judging Kindness Latin Life Loan Losing Loss Love Money Old Age Opportunity Pain Past Pleasure Poverty Procrastination Prudence Repentance Reputation Safety Silence Solitude Soul Suffering Virtue Wealth Wisdom Youth
Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.

Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.

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Fall, Humility

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

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Confidence, Soul, Departed

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

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Love, Healed, Wounds

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

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Laughing, Sound, Trumpets

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

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Men, Good Man, Wealth
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 864-67, 1922.

A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.

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Love, Hate, Mediums

Any one can hold the helm when the seas are calm.

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Sea, Calm, Helm

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

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Wickedness, Calamity

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

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Mirrors, Soul, Speech

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

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Character, Silent, Recommendations
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 34-36, Maxims, 1922.

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

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Beauty, Beautiful, Faces
'Sententiae' no. 199, in J. W. and A. M. Duff 'Minor Latin Poets' (Loeb ed., 1934); translated by Francis Bacon in Apophthegms no. 12

Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.

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Needs, Want, Lovers

There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.

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Pain, Victory, Moments

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

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Double Standard, Favors, Needy

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

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Judgement, Firsts, Steps

He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.

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Safety, Danger

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

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Truth, Speak, Truth Is

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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Education, Teacher, Money
"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 571, 1856.

He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.

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Worst Enemy, Conquer, Temperament

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them

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Love, Family, Happiness

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.

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Sea, Land, Clear

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

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Failure, Loss, Lost Friendship
"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 38, 1856.

What is left when honor is lost?

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Integrity, Honor, Lost
"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 265, 1856.

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

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Yield, Venus, Seduction

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

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Acceptance, Favors, Accepting

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