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
heart giving praying
Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
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In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
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No just person ever became quickly rich.
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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A handsome person, with perverted will, is a fine craft that's handled without skill
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A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called
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This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more useful rule