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.
MENANDERNever ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
MENANDERThe chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
MENANDERSleep is a healing balm for every ill.
MENANDERBeing mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
MENANDERConscience is a God to all mortals.
MENANDERThere is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
MENANDERWhom the gods love dies young.
MENANDERChance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
MENANDERNo just person ever became quickly rich.
MENANDERHe who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDERIt must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
MENANDERThe truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
MENANDERMarriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
MENANDERTo live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.
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