Quotes from Menander

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

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

when a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.

Wer davonläuft kann später kämpfen.

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

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Culture makes all men gentle.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

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

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

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.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

It is a piece of luck to have relations scarce.

The good man makes others good.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

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

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.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

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