How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
MENANDERNo just person ever became quickly rich.
More Menander Quotes
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Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
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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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Silence is often advantageous.
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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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It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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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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Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
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No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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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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Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
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The good man makes others good.
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