The character of a man is known from his conversations.
"Menander" was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian Ancient Greek comedy/New Comedy. He was the author of more than a hundred comedies, and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown but may well have been similarly spectacular.
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. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived almost entirely.
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Whom the gods love dies young.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
Culture makes all men gentle.
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The man who runs may fight again.
The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Deus ex machina [A god from the machine].
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Nothing is more useful than silence.
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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