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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  Pain, Men, Comfort

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• The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

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  School, Experience, Curriculum

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• Silence is often advantageous.

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  Inspirational, Silence, Silence Is

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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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  Women, Sea, Land

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• The character of a man is known from his conversations.

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  Character, Men, Conversation

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• No just person ever became quickly rich.

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  Wealth, Rich, Persons

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• The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

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  Evil, Excess, Goodness

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• The good man makes others good.

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  Men, Good Man, Goodness

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• He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

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  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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• Art is man's refuge from adversity.

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  Art, Adversity, Men

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• Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

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  Heart, Giving, Praying

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• Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

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  War, Iron, Clothes

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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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  Hands, Stones, Easy

  "Ex Incert. Comæd", (p. 216) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 902-907), 1922.

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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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  Inspirational, Mean, Development And Growth

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• By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.

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  Men, Self, Helping

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• Nothing is more useful than silence.

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  Men, Silence, Silent

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Ex Incert. Comœd", p. 216), 1922.

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• Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

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  Determination, Fighting, Weather

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• No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

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  Men, Experience, Alive

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• Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

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  Hope, Midst, Persons

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• There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Love You

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• At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

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  Play, Fool, Should

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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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  Sweet, Oneself

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• We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

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  Love, Life, Leadership

  'The Lady of Andros' in 'Menander: the Principal Fragments' translated by F. G. Allinson (1951) p. 316

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• Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

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  Courage, Choices, Bravery

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