It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
MENANDERNothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
More Menander Quotes
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The good man makes others good.
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.
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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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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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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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Silence is often advantageous.
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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
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Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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The character of a man is known from his conversations.
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Conscience is a God to all mortals.
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