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
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.
men good-man goodness
The good man makes others good.
men experience alive
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
men events be-prepared
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
marriage men wife
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
character men conversation
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
men self helping
To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
art adversity men
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
pain men want
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.
endure evil truth
Marriage, if truth be told (of this be sure), An evil is - but one we must endure
fall gathers man wood
On the fall of an oak, every man gathers wood
cause cherished fear friend secrets
Let not your friend your cherished secrets hear; Then, if you quarrel, you've no cause to fear
dye hair ought woman women yellow
A chaste woman ought not to dye her hair yellow