“For him who loves labor, there is always something to do.”
Maxim 219
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Publilio Siro: Doing
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“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
Misattributed as Maxim 7, p. 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=GKFGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=%22To+do+two+things+at+once+is+to+do+neither.%22
Variant of:
Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit
Who chases two rabbits catches neither.
A Dictionary of Quotations in most frequent Use, David Evans Macdonnel, 1797, quoted in The Monthly Review, 1798, p. 467 https://books.google.com/books?id=KYhPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA467&dq=%22duos+qui+sequitur+lepores+neutrum+capit%22
Apparently of medieval or modern origin, not found in antiquity.
Misattributed
“He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.”
Maxim 459
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“No one knows what he can do till he tries.”
Maxim 786
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”
Maxim 338
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Do not take part in the council, unless you are called.”
Maxim 310
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Receive an injury rather than do one.”
Maxim 5
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“By doing nothing men learn to do ill.”
Maxim 318
Compare Ecclesiasticus 33:27 (KJV): "idleness teacheth much evil".
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave