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Famous Publilius Syrus Quotes
“Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.”
“That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.”
“A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.”
“Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.”
“He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.”
“Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.”
“No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.”
“Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.”
“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 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's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.”
“There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.”