Menander

Menander (c. 342 BC - c. 291 BC) was a Greek comic poet, born at Athens, was the pupil of Theophrastus and a friend of Epicurus. Menander is considered as the most gifted playwright of Greece. Of his works, which were numerous, we have only some fragments, but we can judge of them from his imitator Terence. He wrote more than hundred plays. He is known for more realistic representation of human life.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Love blinds all men alike, both the reasonable and the foolish.

- Andria

• Marriage , to tell the truth, is an evil, but it is a necessary evil.

- Fragment

• There is nothing worse than a woman - even a good woman.

- Fragment

• Whom the gods love dies young.

- The Double Deceiver

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

- Lady of Andros

• Riches cover a multitude of woes.

- The Boeotian Girl

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

- The Girl Who Gets Flogged

• Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.

- Monosticha

• The man who runs may fight again.

- Monosticha

• Conscience is a God to all mortals.

- Monosticha

• To say more than what's necessary
• I don't think is appropriate for a man.

- Knemon in Dyskolos

• Bad company corrupts good character.

- quoted by Paul (Menander derived it from Euripides says Socrates Scholasticus)

• He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
• Let the die be cast!

- Arrhephoros

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