Menander Quotes - Page 2

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• Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

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  Healing, Health, Sleep

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• We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

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  Love, Life, Leadership

  'The Lady of Andros' in 'Menander: the Principal Fragments' translated by F. G. Allinson (1951) p. 316

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• Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

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  Drinking, Sea, Land

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• Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

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  Courage, Choices, Bravery

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• Conscience is a God to all mortals.

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  Mortals, Conscience

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• A man that runs away may fight again.

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  Running, War, Fighting

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• Whom the gods love dies young.

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  Latin, God Love, Young

  Dis Exapaton fragment 4

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• He who labors diligently need never despair.

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  Perseverance, Labor Day, Despair

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• In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

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  People, Know Thyself, Wells

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• The workman still is greater than his work.

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  Work, Workmen, Stills

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• Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

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  Evil, Faces, Truth Is

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• Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

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  Life, Courage, Grief

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• Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

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  Chance, Kind, Chances Are

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• Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

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  Life, Men, Preparation

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• It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

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  Communication, Evil, Disposition

  Found in Dubner's edition of his Fragments appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Græca, p. 102, line 101,

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• Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

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  Pieces, Moments, Assured

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• It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

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  Wisdom, Hair, Shoulders

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• Fortune is no real thing.
  But men who cannot bear what comes to them
  In Nature's way, give their own characters
  The name of Fortune.

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  Real, Character, Men

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• There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

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  Love, Marriage, Men

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• All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

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  Friends, Good Friend, Men

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• I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

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  Figs, Spades

  Unidentified fragment 545 K (K = T. Kock, "Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta", 3 vols. (Leipzig 1880/8)), as translated in ‪"Menander: The Principal Fragments"‬‎ by Francis Greenleaf Allinson, 1921.

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• It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Hair, White Hair

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• Why should he who is scared be careful?

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  Worry, Anxiety, Scared

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• Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

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  Women, Sea, Earth

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