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Men Quotes by Publilius Syrus
- From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
- One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
- Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
- A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
- The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
- As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
- Wise man also fears a weak enemy.
- It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
- At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
- The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not…
- The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
- The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
- The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.
- A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
- Man has been lent, not given, to life.
- There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
- Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.
- Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
- There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
- It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
- No good man ever became suddenly rich.
- Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present
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