Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
MENANDERKnow thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
More Menander Quotes
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How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
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The good man makes others good.
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Whom the gods love dies young.
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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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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.
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No just person ever became quickly rich.
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Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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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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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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The character of a man is known from his conversations.
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It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
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No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.
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Silence is often advantageous.
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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
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Art is man’s refuge from adversity.
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
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There is but one genuine love potion – consideration.
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Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
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Conscience is a God to all mortals.
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