Syrus Quotes

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. —PUBLIUS SYRUS

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone.

An angry man is, again, angry with himself when he returns to reason.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

He who violates another's honor loses his own.

What is left when honor is lost?

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Publilius Syrus, remarked: ‘We are interested in others when they are interested in us.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

We should keep our word even to the undeserving.

Any land is your country where you can live happy.

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

bis vincit qui se vincit - he conquers twice who conquers himself

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

It is better to learn late than never.

We Are Interested In Others When They Are Interested In Us

The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. Publilius Syrus

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

There is no sight in the eye, when the mind does not gaze.

When angry, a man has deserted his body.

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

A friendship that can end never really began.

To be always giving, is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

Seek to please many, and you seek a failure.

The wretched reflect either too much or too little.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

Happy he who died when death was desirable.

Debt is the slavery of the free

Either be silent, or say something better than silence.

In the words of Publilius Syrus: A wise man will be master of his mind, A fool will be its slave.

Publilius Syrus come to me: Amor animi arbitrio sumitur, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

It is only the ignorant who despise education

Some enmities conceal themselves beneath a mask, some under a kiss.

It is the soul, not the body, that makes an enduring marriage.

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

whom fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad

No man is happy that does not think himself so.

It is hard to recover the lost opportunity.

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss..............

Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom.

Of what am I guilty," once exclaimed Antisthenes, "that I should be praised?

To submit to necessity involves no disgrace.

Time, not the Will, can put an end to love.

Excessive severity misses its own aim.

Where there is unity, there is always victory

What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?

You will find a great many things before you find a good man.

It is vain to be the pupil of a sage if you have no brains yourself.

Many consult their reputation; but few their conscience.

It is foolish to hoard, when you do not know for whom you do it.

The future struggles that it may not become the past.

A wise man rules his passions, fool obeys them.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

To do two things at once is to do neither. —Publilius Syrus This is one of my favorite quotes on multitasking and it absolutely pertains to eating. Before I lived in Paris, it was not uncommon to see me eating a meal standing up, perhaps at my kitchen counter, with my cell phone lodged between my ear and my shoulder. Or worse yet, in front of the TV. By the time the meal was over, I wouldn’t have known I had eaten anything at all.

A god can hardly disturb a man truly happy.

No one can escape death or love.

Who knows how great are the secret pangs of conscience?

God generally finds a way for like to meet like.

Even one hair has a shadow.

It’s a bad plan that can’t be changed.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

An hour sometimes restores us the sum of many years losses.

The sons of the blacksmith are not frightened at sparks.

Even to be hung one should choose a fine tree.

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.

We may with advantage at times forget what we know.

That life is most pleasant which is passed in ignorance.

The most formidable enemy lies hid in one own's heart.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

The severest affliction is the one which has never been tried.

When the world hates you, see that it has no good reason therefor.

Even in death, a good man would not deceive.

Лицемерният другар е много по-лош и от най-злия враг.

Prudence He does well who moors his boat with two anchors. PUBLILIUS SYRUS

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

A god could hardly love and be wise.

Intemperance is the physician's provider.

Methinks you are unhappy, if you have never been so.

Fear cannot restrain, when pleasure invites.

Practice is the best of all instructors

A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave.

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering.

The wounds of the soul should be cured before those of the body.

Mighty rivers may easily be leaped at their source

To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.