Publilius Syrus
Ancient Rome
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Poet
-85 // -43
Poet
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A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all
What is left when honor is lost?
We die as often as we lose a friend
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy
To do two things at once is to do neither
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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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