If 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.
MENANDERWhom the gods love dies young.
More Menander Quotes
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Whom the gods love dies young.
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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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Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
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Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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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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Why should he who is scared be careful?
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Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
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To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.
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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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