„Taktgefühl kann nicht gelehrt nur angeboren werden.“

—  Publilius Syrus

Sententiae P4, Übersetzung Wikiquote
Original lat.: "Pudor doceri non potest, nasci potest."

„Niemand weiß, was er kann, bevor er's versucht.“

—  Publilius Syrus

„Der nächste Tag ist der Schüler des vorigen.“

—  Publilius Syrus

Sententiae D1; meist zitiert als "Ein Tag belehrt den nächsten."
Original lat.: "Discipulus est prioris posterior dies." meist zitiert als "Dies diem docet."

„No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 376
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„Necessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.“

—  Publilio Siro

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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Original: (la) Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit.

„What is left when honor is lost?“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 265
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„The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 407
Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
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Original: (la) Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.

„It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 469
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Original: (la) Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest.

„A rolling stone gathers no moss.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 524
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Original: (la) Saxum volutum non obducitur musco

„Be your money's master, not its slave.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 657
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„Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 865
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„Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 124
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„No one knows what he can do till he tries.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 786
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„Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.“

—  Publilio Siro

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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Original: (la) Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.

„The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 511
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„Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 1073
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„Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not.“

—  Publilio Siro

Maxim 927
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„In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.“

—  Publilio Siro

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Maxim 357
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„Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.“

—  Publilio Siro

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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