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Posted on August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

“If fortune wants to do you in, she makes you stupid.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim-writer, 85 BC — 43 BC

Posted on April 10, 2022

“Fortune is glass. Just when it gleams brightest it shatters.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on March 5, 2022March 5, 2022

“No one is able to flee from death or love.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

“Don’t wish ill for your enemy; plan it.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on September 11, 2021

“Those who can sin in secret do so more quickly.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on March 19, 2021

“Good sense, not age, brings wisdom.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on November 24, 2020

“When a bad man pretends he’s good, he’s at his worst.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on August 7, 2020

“When he says he did you a favour, he’s asking for one.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century, BC

Posted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020

“No man loses honor who had any in the first place.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on August 20, 2017August 20, 2017

“Money doesn’t satisfy greed; it stimulates it.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

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