mean man
Antonyms
Examples
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.
Thus it is that the superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of Heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.
Death takes the mean man with the proud; The fatal urn has room for all.
To serve a mean man may not be profitable.