Menander Quotes

• We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
• Riches cover a multitude of woes.
• Whom the gods love dies young.
• At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
• The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
• Deus ex machina.
• I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
• Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
• It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
• Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.
• The man who runs may fight again.
• Conscience is a God to all mortals.

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