Menander of
Menander of
war iron clothes
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
real character men
Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.
ask enduring gods heart pray untroubled
Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life; But ask the gods to give you an enduring heart
men experience alive
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
chance kind chances-are
Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
art adversity men
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
door man next proverb rule silly useful
This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more useful rule