I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
MENANDEROf all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
More Menander Quotes
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Silence is often advantageous.
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There is but one genuine love potion – consideration.
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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.
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The workman still is greater than his work.
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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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Whom the gods love dies young.
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Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
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Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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