Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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Anand Thakur
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
MENANDERIf you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.
MENANDERI call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
MENANDERThe workman still is greater than his work.
MENANDERHow sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
MENANDERWhy should he who is scared be careful?
MENANDERThe chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
MENANDERConscience is a God to all mortals.
MENANDERBeing mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
MENANDERIt is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
MENANDERChance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
MENANDERLet bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
MENANDERHe who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDERSleep is a healing balm for every ill.
MENANDEROf all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
MENANDERHe who labors diligently need never despair.
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