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Publilius Syrus

Quote of Publilius Syrus - To make her onset worse, malice...


Biography - Publilius Syrus:

Latin writer *Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -85 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Syria
Syria

To make her onset worse, malice pretends to be good.



Translation

Translation

(French, Latin, German)



French
La méchanceté, quand elle vient avec les desseins les plus noirs, prend le masque de la bonté.

Latin
Malitia, ut pejor venit, se simulat bonam.

German
Damit sich Bosheit steigert, heuchelt sie Güte.




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Virtue will not be followed but for herself; and, if we sometimes borrow her mask for some other occasion, she presently pulls it off again.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.




Quotes for: good


Quotes

Quotes for: good


Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.





Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.





To do good needs no consideration.





The best is the enemy of good.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.











Quotes for: evil


Quotes

Quotes for: evil


The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.





Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.





What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.











Quotes for: mask


Quotes

Quotes about mask:


No one can wear a mask for very long.





Everything that is profound loves the mask.





Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.





To me men are for what they are, They wear no masks with me.





The mask is torn off, the reality remains.







Quotes

Publilius Syrus also said...


The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.





He has what he desires who can limit his desires to what is enough.





In excessive altercation, truth is lost.





From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.





He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.





It is better to trust in ability than in luck.












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