Publilius Syrus Men Quotations

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

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 better than the governed.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

He who injures one man threatens many.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.

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.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.