Menander

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Menander (342 BC – 291 BC), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens.

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• We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
  • Lady of Andros, fragment 50

• Riches cover a multitude of woes.
  • The Boeotian Girl, fragment 90

• Whom the gods love dies young.
  • The Double Deceiver, fragment 125

• At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
  • Those Offered for Sale, fragment 421

• The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
  • The Girl Who Gets Flogged, fragment 422

• Deus ex machina.
  • Translation: A god from the machine.
  • The Woman Possessed with a Divinity, fragment 227

• I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
  • Unidentified fragment 545

• Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
  • Unidentified fragment 651

• It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
  • Unidentified fragment 639

• Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.
  • Monostikoi (Single Lines)

• The man who runs may fight again.
  • Monostikoi (Single Lines)

• Conscience is a God to all mortals.
  • Monostikoi (Single Lines)

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