I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
MENANDER
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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
MenanderMenander Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
MenanderMenander All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
MenanderMenander A man that runs away may fight again.
MenanderMenander The character of a man is known from his conversations.
MenanderMenander Why should he who is scared be careful?
MenanderMenander The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
MenanderMenander He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MenanderMenander How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
MenanderMenander Conscience is a God to all mortals.
MenanderMenander Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
MenanderMenander Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
MenanderMenander We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
MenanderMenander Art is man’s refuge from adversity.
MenanderMenander The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
MenanderMenander The workman still is greater than his work.
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MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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