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Publilius Syrus

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.


— Publilius Syrus


#cannot #force #kindness #you

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.


— Publilius Syrus


#full #god #hands #looks #ones

He who spares the bad injures the good.


— Publilius Syrus


#good #injures #spares #who

It is better to learn late than never.


— Publilius Syrus


#late #learn #never #than

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.


— Publilius Syrus


#fire #folly #live #neighbor #next

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.


— Publilius Syrus


#friends #makes #prosperity #them #tries

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.


— Publilius Syrus


#heir #laughter #weeping

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.


— Publilius Syrus


#forces #innocent #lie #pain

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.


— Publilius Syrus


#favor #gift #needy #season

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.


— Publilius Syrus


#i #never #often #regret #silent






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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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