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12 Menander Quotes

Menander offers playful yet thoughtful musings on discretion, truth and marriage.

Menander quotes

  1. We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

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  2. Riches cover a multitude of woes.

    #2

  3. Whom the gods love dies young.

    #3

  4. At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

    #4

  5. The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

    #5

  6. Deus ex machina.

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  7. I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

    #7

  8. Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

    #8

  9. It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

    #9

  10. Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.

    #10

  11. The man who runs may fight again.

    #11

  12. Conscience is a God to all mortals.

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