1.
He who labors diligently need never despair.
Menander
2.
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
3.
No just person ever became quickly rich.
Menander
4.
There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.
Menander
5.
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.
Menander
6.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
Menander
7.
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
Menander
8.
Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
Menander
9.
Nothing is more useful than silence.
Menander
10.
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.
Menander
11.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
12.
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
Menander
13.
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
Menander
14.
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
Menander
15.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Menander
16.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Menander
17.
There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.
Menander
18.
Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
Menander
19.
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
Menander
20.
Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
Menander
21.
The good man makes others good.
Menander
22.
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
Menander
23.
To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
Menander
24.
How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
Menander
25.
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.
Menander
26.
Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
Menander
27.
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.
Menander
28.
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
Menander
29.
The workman still is greater than his work.
Menander
30.
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
Menander
31.
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
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32.
A man that runs away may fight again.
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33.
Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
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34.
Whom the gods love dies young.
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35.
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
Menander
36.
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
Menander
37.
All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
Menander
38.
It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
Menander
39.
Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
Menander
40.
Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
Menander
41.
Silence is often advantageous.
Menander
42.
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
Menander
43.
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
Menander
44.
The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
Menander
45.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander
46.
Conscience is a God to all mortals.
Menander
47.
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
Menander
48.
Why should he who is scared be careful?
Menander
49.
Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
Menander
