The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
Publius Syrus
4 min readOct 12, 2019
- As men, we’re all equal in the presence of death.
- To do two things at once is to do neither.
- Hard is it to correct the habit already formed.
- A small loan makes a debtor; a great one, an enemy.
- Bitter for a free man is the bondage of debt.
- We are interested in others, when they are interested in us.
- Every one excels in something in which another fails.
- If you cannot bear the faults of a friend, you make them your own (because you have not the charity to correct them.)
- Be not blind to a friend’s fault, nor hate him for them.
- Friendship either finds or make equals.
- The loss of a friend is the greatest of all losses.
- We all seek to know whether we shall be rich; but no one asks whether he shall be good.
- A wise man rules his passions; a fool obeys them.
- Human reason grows rich by self-conquest.
- What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
- Never forget a favour received; be quick to forget a favour bestowed.
- He who cannot give…
