Menander
Menander
Menanderwas a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown but may well have been similarly spectacular...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
courage choices bravery
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
friends good-friend men
All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
real character men
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.
work workmen stills
The workman still is greater than his work.
men good-man goodness
The good man makes others good.
men experience alive
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
war iron clothes
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.
chance kind chances-are
Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
figs spades
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
light sometimes
The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
play fool should
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
pieces moments assured
Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
women sea earth
Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
perseverance labor-day despair
He who labors diligently need never despair.