
Top 48 Menander Quotes
#1. To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
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#2. Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
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#3. We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
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#4. The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
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#5. All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
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#6. Culture makes all men gentle.
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#7. No just person ever became quickly rich.
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#8. Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
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#9. When a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.
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#10. The good man makes others good.
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#11. Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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#12. Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
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#13. Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
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#14. Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
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#15. Conscience is a God to all mortals.
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#16. Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
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#17. By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
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#18. Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
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#19. Riches cover a multitude of woes.
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#20. 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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#21. There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
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#22. The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
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#23. Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
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#24. How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
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#25. The man who runs may fight again.
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#26. It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
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#27. It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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#28. Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
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#29. The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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#30. Why should he who is scared be careful?
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#31. In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
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#32. Bad company corrupts good character.
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#33. 'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
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#34. Silence is often advantageous.
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#35. Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
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#36. Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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#37. Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
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#38. It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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#39. He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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#40. Whom the gods love dies young
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#41. The character of a man is known from his conversations.
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#42. There is but one genuine love potion - consideration ...
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#43. Art is man's refuge from adversity.
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#44. Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
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#45. Nothing is more useful than silence.
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#46. The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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#47. There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.
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#48. No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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