Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.
Publilius Syrus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Publilius Syrus
Actor
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Nisibis
Falsely
Truthful
Force
Pain
Speak
Even
More quotes by Publilius Syrus
Equanimity is calamity's medicine.
Publilius Syrus
Bad nature never lacks an instructor.
Publilius Syrus
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].
Publilius Syrus
There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
Publilius Syrus
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
Publilius Syrus
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
Publilius Syrus
All powerful is the rule of fashion.
Publilius Syrus
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus
It is easy to defend the innocent but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?
Publilius Syrus
It's a bad plan that can't be changed.
Publilius Syrus
When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
Publilius Syrus
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
Publilius Syrus
The wretched reflect either too much or too little.
Publilius Syrus
Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.
Publilius Syrus
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
Publilius Syrus
There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.
Publilius Syrus
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
Publilius Syrus
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
Publilius Syrus
Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.
Publilius Syrus