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
“It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
Maxim 995
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“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".
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“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.
Sentences
“Even when there is no law, there is conscience.”
Publilio Siro Sententiae
Maxim 237
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
