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.
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Anand Thakur
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.
MENANDERAll men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
MENANDERIn many things it is not well to say, “Know thyself”; it is better to say, “Know others.”
MENANDERNothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
MENANDERIt is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
MENANDERTo live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.
MENANDERThe workman still is greater than his work.
MENANDERWe live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
MENANDERHe who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDERRest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
MENANDERI call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
MENANDERBy associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
MENANDEROf all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
MENANDERWhom the gods love dies young.
MENANDERThere are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.
MENANDERThe chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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