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Publilius Syrus

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Take care that no one hates you justly.


— Publilius Syrus


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The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.


— Publilius Syrus


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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.


— Publilius Syrus


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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.


— Publilius Syrus


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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.


— Publilius Syrus


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The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.


— Publilius Syrus


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The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.


— Publilius Syrus


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The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.


— Publilius Syrus


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The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.


— Publilius Syrus


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The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.


— Publilius Syrus


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A rolling stone gathers no moss. Publilius was perhaps even more famous as an improviser and received from Caesar himself the prize in a contest in which he vanquiPublilius Syrusd all his competitors including the celebrated Decimus Laberius. His mimes in which he acted himself had a great success in the provincial towns of Italy and at the games given by Caesar in 46 BC.

As of 1911 the best texts of the Sentences were those of Eduard Wölfflin (1869) A. His mimes in which he acted himself had a great success in the provincial towns of Italy and at the games given by Caesar in 46 BC. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy but by his wit and talent he won the favour of his master who freed and educated him.

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