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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“Tout discours flatteur cache un poison.”
Habet suum venenum blanda ovatio
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Publius Syrus: Citations en anglais
“It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
Maxim 995
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“He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.”
Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
Maxim 6
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“When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.”
Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit.
Maxim 277
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“Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not.”
Maxim 927
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“What happens to one man may happen to all.”
Maxim 171
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“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest.
Maxim 358
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“Either be silent or say something better than silence.”
Maxim 960
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“Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy.”
Maxim 156
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“Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.”
Maxim 35
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“You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.”
Maxim 262
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“There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.”
Maxim 138
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“Never promise more than you can perform.”
Maxim 528
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“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
Maxim 439
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“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.”
Maxim 388
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“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
Maxim 401
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“By doing nothing men learn to do ill.”
Maxim 318
Compare Ecclesiasticus 33:27 (KJV): "idleness teacheth much evil".
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“If your parent is just, revere him; if not, bear with him.”
Ames parentem, si aequus est, si aliter, feras.
Maxim 27
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“We should provide in peace what we need in war.”
Maxim 709
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“In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.”
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Maxim 357
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“Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.”
The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.
Maxim 407
Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
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“Even when there is no law, there is conscience.”
Publilio Siro Sententiae
Maxim 237
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