Publius Syrus (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) lived in 65-8 BCE. He was a Roman poet.
- “There are some remedies worse than the disease”
- “You die every time you lose someone who is dear to you”
- latin: [Homo totiens moritur, quotiens amittit suos]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “Good for man is death when it ends life’s miseries”
- latin: [Bona mors est homini, vitae quae exstinguit mala]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, 67
- “Good courage in a bad circumstance is half of the evil overcome”
- latin: [Bonus animus in re mala dimidium est mali]
- description: assigned also to Plautus.
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “He gives twice who quickly gives”
- latin: [Bis dat, qui cito dat]
- description: help given quickly is much more important.
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, CCXXXV
- “Fate had different plans”
- latin: [Dis aliter visum est]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “When you love, you are not wise, and when you are wise, you don’t love”
- latin: [Cum ames, non sapias, cum sapias, non ames]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favors too much”
- latin: [Stultum facit fortuna, quem perdere vult]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “A small debt produces a debtor, a large one, an enemy”
- latin: [Leve æs alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “Each day succeeding is the student of the one preceding”
- latin: [Discipulus est prioris posterior dies]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “The eyes are blind when the mind works on other things”
- latin: [Caeci sunt oculi, cum animus alias res agit]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “A friendship that can end never really began”
- “We lose things certain in pursuing things uncertain”
- latin: [Certa amittimus, dum incerta petimus]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “It is only the ignorant who despise education”
- “Money alone is the ruling principle of all things”
- latin: [Pecunia una regimen est rerum omnium]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “Admonish your friends secretly, but praise them openly”
- latin: [Amicos secreto admone, palam lauda]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “With the good man anger is quick to die”
- latin: [Bonum ad virum cito moritur iracundia]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “In quarreling, the truth is always lost”
- “The man whom many people fear must fear many people”
- latin: [Multos timere debet, quem multi timent]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “He conquers twice who conquers himself when he is victorious”
- latin: [Bis vincit, qui se vincit in victoria]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
- “Our life is short but is made longer by misfortunes”
- latin: [Brevis ipsa vita est, sed malis fit longior]
- source: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
