The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin
By Publius Syrus and Darius Lyman Jr. —Published 1855
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PREFACE.
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SYRUS.
FIND A SENTENCE.
820.
*When vice is profitable, he errs who does right.
*This maxim is at once the climax of worldly wisdom and genuine folly, and was probably put by Syrus in the mouth of some unscrupulous scoundrel personated in a mime.
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