The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus by Publius Syrus

Author:Publius Syrus [Syrus, Publius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Rome, Stoics
ISBN: 9781365723889
Publisher: Enhanced Media Publishing
Published: 2015-08-04T17:00:00+00:00

501-600

501. To depend on another's nod for a livelihood is a sad destiny.

502. Compulsory silence is intolerable when one burns to speak freely.

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

504. There is diligence in mature deliberation.

505. Delay is always vexatious, but it is wisdom's opportunity.

506. Understand your friend's character, but do not hate it.

507. An orator's life is more convincing than his eloquence.

508. Happy the man who dies before he prays for death.

509. You must die, but not as often as you may have wished.

510. There is no mortal whom sorrow cannot reach.

511. The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

512. When you have learned to despise death, you will have overcome every terror.

513. Everything which has birth, must pay tribute to death.

514. A woman's tear is spite's seasoning.

515. There are many displeased when a woman weds many.

516. A woman's solitary thoughts are her worst ones.

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

518. Power gains power by a multitude of pardons.

519. He threatens many, who does injustice to one.

520. Seek to please many, and you seek a failure.

521. The death of a good man is a public calamity.

522. He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

523. Gifts, and not tears, soften the heart of a courtesan.

524. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

525. When her anger is kindled by injustice; goodness changes her norm.

526. When a vile man does right he conceals his true character.

527. Let not your benevolence extend beyond your means.

528. Never promise more than you can perform.

529. Begin nothings the accomplishment of which you will repent.

530. No one can escape death or love.

531. Man has no enduring lease of life or fortune.

532. Necessity may force from men whatever she wishes.

533. Necessity imposes laws; but does not receive them.

534. Want renders a needy man a liar.

535. On what a firm foundation rests the empire of necessity.

536. In vain may we look for that which fate conceals.

537. Necessity takes what she wishes by force if not voluntarily yielded.

538. We should bear our destiny, not weep over it.

539. Necessity can turn any weapon to advantage.

540. A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

541. Frugality is a remedy for indigence.

542. Avarice never lacks a reason for refusing a favor.

543. We refuse ourselves [the thing desired], when we ask what cannot be had.

544. It is natural not to credit [the possibility of] great crimes.

545. No one should be judge in his own cause.

546. No one dies too soon, whom misery slays.

547. No one is so poor during life, as at birth.

548. Be the first to laugh at your own blunder, and no one will laugh at you.

549. Fear never advanced any man to the highest standing.

550. Depravity is its own greatest punishment.

551. When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

552. He who is always unlucky, had better do nothing.

553. Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

554. Fortune takes nothing away but her own gifts.

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