Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
MENANDERThe good man makes others good.
More Menander Quotes
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
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Why should he who is scared be careful?
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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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Whom the gods love dies young.
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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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How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
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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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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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To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
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