How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
MENANDERBy associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
More Menander Quotes
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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Silence is often advantageous.
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No just person ever became quickly rich.
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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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A man that runs away may fight again.
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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
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Whom the gods love dies young.
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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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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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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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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young 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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Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
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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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