“Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 1075
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Be not anxious to please the multitude”
Sentences of Sextus
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