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Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.

Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

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Notes from Wikiquote

Often quoted as "Homo homini lupus" [A man is a wolf to another man].

Variants

A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what he's like.

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