Menander Quotes

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  • Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

  • Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

  • Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

  • Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

  • 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.

  • Whom the gods love dies young.

    Dis Exapaton fragment 4
  • The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

  • The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

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

  • A man that runs away may fight again.

  • It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

    Wisdom  
  • It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

    "Ex Incert. Comæd", (p. 216) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 902-907), 1922.
  • Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

  • No just person ever became quickly rich.

  • 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.

  • There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

  • The workman still is greater than his work.

  • Silence is often advantageous.

  • Art is man's refuge from adversity.

  • The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

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

    'The Lady of Andros' in 'Menander: the Principal Fragments' translated by F. G. Allinson (1951) p. 316
  • It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

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

  • How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

  • Nothing is more useful than silence.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Ex Incert. Comœd", p. 216), 1922.
  • Why should he who is scared be careful?

  • 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.

  • Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

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

  • Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

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    Menander

    • Born: 342 BC
    • Died: 291 BC
    • Occupation: Dramatist