
Quote of Publilius Syrus - Speech is the mirror of the...
Biography - Publilius Syrus:
Latin writer
*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -85 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Syria
Born: -85 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Syria

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

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Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.


Quotes for: Language

Quotes for: mirror
All the arts are like mirrors in which the human beings know and recognize something of themselves they ignored.

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