Conscience is a God to all mortals.
MENANDERAll men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
More Menander Quotes
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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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How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
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There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.
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The workman still is greater than his work.
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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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Why should he who is scared be careful?
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It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
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Art is man’s refuge from adversity.
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Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
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There is but one genuine love potion – consideration.
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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