Menander
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.Collection: Marriage
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.Collection: God
Culture makes all men gentle.Collection: Men
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.Collection: 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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: War
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.Collection: Evil
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.Collection: Inspirational
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.Collection: School
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.Collection: Inspirational
Silence is often advantageous.Collection: Inspirational
The character of a man is known from his conversations.Collection: Character
There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.Collection: Women
Art is man's refuge from adversity.Collection: Art
To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.Collection: Men
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.Collection: Inspirational
The good man makes others good.Collection: Men
No just person ever became quickly rich.Collection: Wealth
Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.Collection: Heart
Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.Collection: Hope
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.Collection: Determination
Nothing is more useful than silence.Collection: Men
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.Collection: Play
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.Collection: Men
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.Collection: Hands
The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.Collection: Light
How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.Collection: Sweet
There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.Collection: Wise
Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.Collection: Drinking
Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.Collection: Experience
Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.Collection: Healing
He who labors diligently need never despair.Collection: Perseverance
Whom the gods love dies young.Collection: Latin
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.Collection: Love
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."Collection: People
A man that runs away may fight again.Collection: Running
The workman still is greater than his work.Collection: Work
Conscience is a God to all mortals.Collection: Mortals
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.Collection: Life
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.Collection: Courage
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.Collection: Communication
Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.Collection: Pieces
Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.Collection: Chance
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.Collection: Love
All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.Collection: Friends
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.Collection: Life
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.Collection: Figs
It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.Collection: Wisdom
Why should he who is scared be careful?Collection: Worry