“I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not”
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
“Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.”
Asinaria, Act II, scene 4 (line 495 of full Latin text).
Variant translation: A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what he's like.
Often quoted as "Homo homini lupus" [A man is a wolf to another man].
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)
Original
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.
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Plautus 54
Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period -254–-184 BCRelated quotes
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