Whom the gods love dies young.
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Anand Thakur
Whom the gods love dies young.
MENANDERIt is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
MENANDERMarriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
MENANDERThe chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
MENANDERThere is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
MENANDERIn many things it is not well to say, “Know thyself”; it is better to say, “Know others.”
MENANDERIt must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
MENANDERSleep is a healing balm for every ill.
MENANDERNo just person ever became quickly rich.
MENANDERFortune 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.
MENANDERNo man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
MENANDERThe truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
MENANDERHow sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
MENANDERIf 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.
MENANDERSilence is often advantageous.
MENANDERRest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
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