Quote #8

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

More from Menander

  1. I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
  2. It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
  3. Deus ex machina.
  4. Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.
  5. The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
  6. The man who runs may fight again.
  7. At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
  8. Conscience is a God to all mortals.

All Menander quotes