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Menander

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Whom the gods love dies young


— Menander


#love

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


— Menander


#wish

Bad company corrupts good character.


— Menander


#character #company #corrupts #good #good character

Culture makes all men gentle.


— Menander


#culture #gentle #makes

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.


— Menander


#even #god #hand #honest #lends

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'


— Menander


#good #know #know thyself #many #others

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.


— Menander


#all things #despair #diligence #diligently #labor

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


— Menander


#fig #i #spade

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.


— Menander


#hair #white #wisdom

The character of a man is known from his conversations.


— Menander


#conversations #his #known #man






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Did you know about Menander?

According to the note of a scholiast on the Ibis of Ovid he drowned while bathing and his countrymen honored him with a tomb on the road leading to Athens where it was seen by Pausanias. One of the most popular writers of antiquity his work was lost in the Middle Ages and is known in modernity in highly fragmentary form much of which was discovered in the 20th century. Life and work
Menander was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso.

Only one play Dyskolos has survived in its entirety. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown but may well have been similarly spectacular.

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