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Publilius Syrus

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.


— Publilius Syrus


#friends #openly #praise #privately #them

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.


— Publilius Syrus


#count #friends #him #privacies #retail

Familiarity breeds contempt.


— Publilius Syrus


#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.


— Publilius Syrus


#broken #easily #fortune #glass #glitter

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.


— Publilius Syrus


#lose #lost #more #nothing #who

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.


— Publilius Syrus


#himself #many #whom

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.


— Publilius Syrus


#highest #lowest #reach #wish #you

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.


— Publilius Syrus


#modification #plan

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.


— Publilius Syrus


#caution #good #good thing #learn #misfortunes

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.


— Publilius Syrus


#immediately #intend #kindness #refuse #you






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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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