Publilius Syrus
Ancient Rome
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Poet
-85 // -43
Poet
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Many receive advice, few profit by it
Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity
It matters not how long you live, but how well
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody
In excessive altercation, truth is lost
In every enterprise consider where you would come out
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own
If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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