Publius Syrus citations célèbres
“Il n'est pas permis de blesser un ami, même en plaisantant.”
Amicum laedere, ne joco quidem licet.
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Publius Syrus: Citations en anglais
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
Maxim 1070
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“No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.”
Maxim 376
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“Necessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.”
Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit.
Maxim 444
Variant translation: Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Necessitas non habet legem, "Necessity has no law", is apparently of medieval origin. See Necessity for further variants.
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“Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.”
Maxim 170
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“For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.”
Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona.
Maxim 207
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“Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.”
Maxim 232
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“Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.”
Maxim 120
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“Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.”
Maxim 580
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“What is left when honor is lost?”
Maxim 265
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“The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.”
Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.
Maxim 407
Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
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“For him who loves labor, there is always something to do.”
Maxim 219
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“Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.”
Maxim 319
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“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.
Maxim 559 [Mimi et aliorum sententiae 677]
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“The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.”
Maxim 941
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“Many receive advice, few profit by it.”
Maxim 149
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“Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.”
Maxim 274
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“He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.”
Maxim 629
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“Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.”
Maxim 236
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Variante: Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
“To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.”
Maxim 383
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“No one should be judge in his own cause.”
Maxim 545
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“Even a single hair casts its shadow.”
Maxim 228 http://books.google.com/books?id=_QQSAAAAIAAJ&q="even+a+single+hair+casts+its+shadow"&pg=PA28#v=onepage
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“They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.”
Maxim 790
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“Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
Maxim 280
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“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
Maxim 441
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“The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.”
Maxim 24
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“Be your money's master, not its slave.”
Maxim 657
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“We are interested in others, when they are interested in us.”
Maxim 16
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“Every one excels in something in which another fails.”
Maxim 17
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“He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.”
Maxim 77
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