Frases célebres de Publilio Siro
“A fuerza de soportar mucho, llegará lo que no pueda soportarse.”
Sin fuentes
Original en latín: «Patiendo multa, venient quae nequeas pati».
“Dos veces vence el que se vence a sí mismo.”
Original en latín: «Bis vincit qui se vincit».
Es el lema de la familia Bysee (pronunciado Bis). Buckler.
Traducción: «Vence el que se vence a sí mismo».
Es el lema de la familia Holland, y aparece en el logotipo de la cerveza sin alcohol Buckler.
Variante: «Vincit qui se vincit».
Variante: Vence el que se vence a sí mismo.
Publilio Siro Frases y Citas
“Hasta un solo cabello hace su sombra.”
Sin fuentes
Original: «Etiam capillus unus habet umbram suam».
“La herida del amor la sana el mismo que la produce.”
Sin fuentes
Original: «Amoris vulnus idem sanat qui facit».
“El día que sigue es discípulo del que precede.”
Sin fuentes
Original: «Discipulus est prioris posterior dies».
“«El que es temido por muchos, debe temer a muchos».”
Sin fuentes
Variante: Quien de muchos es temido, tiene a muchos que temer.
“Para causar un desastre cualquier rumor vale.”
Sin fuentes
Original: «Ad calamitatem, quilibet rumor valet».
“Quien da pronto algo bueno al necesitado, da dos veces.”
Sin fuentes
Original: «Inopi beneficium bis dat qui dat celeriter».
“Siempre el hombre piensa una cosa, y la fortuna otra.”
Sin fuentes
Traducción: «Homo semper aliud, fortuna aliut, cogitat».
“Todo mérito queda oculto, si no lo proclama la fama.”
Original: «Iacet omnis virtus, fama nisi late patet».
“Está a salvo de cualquier peligro aquel que, aún estando seguro, se mantiene en guardia.”
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013. ISBN 978-60-73116-31-2.
Publilio Siro: Frases en inglés
“Never find your delight in another's misfortune.”
Maxim 467
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“It is only the ignorant who despise education.”
Maxim 571
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“No one knows what he can do till he tries.”
Maxim 786
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“Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.”
Maxim 144
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“God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.”
Maxim 715
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“Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.”
Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.
Maxim 911; one of the most famous renditions of the ancient Greek proverb (which is anonymous and dates to the 5th century BCE or earlier). The provenance of the proverb and its English versions is at Wikiquote's Euripides page, under the heading "Misattributed".
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“The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.”
Maxim 38
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“Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.”
Maxim 1075
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“Too much straightforwardness is foolish against a shameless person.”
Contra impudentem stulta est nimia ingenuitas
Maxim 123
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“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”
Maxim 338
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“Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.”
Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia.
Maxim 236
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“Success makes some crimes honorable.”
Maxim 326
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“Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.”
Maxim 191
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“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest.
Maxim 469
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“Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.”
Maxim 305
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath.”
Maxim 23
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“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Maxim 511
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“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”
Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
Maxim 108
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“Bitter for a free man is the bondage of debt.”
Alienum aes homini ingenuo acerba est servitus.
Maxim 14
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Variante: "Debt is the slavery of the free."
“Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.”
Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.
Maxim 1060
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“The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.”
Maxim 891
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.”
Maxim 1073
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“Money alone sets all the world in motion.”
Maxim 656
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“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.”
Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor.
Maxim 63
Variant translation: "Valour grows by daring, fear by holding back."
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“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.”
Maxim 185
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“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
Maxim 872
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“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
“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”
Maxim 675
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