Menander
Menander
Menanderwas a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 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...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
love-you genuine-love consideration
There is but one genuine love potion - consideration....
hands stones easy
It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
evil faces truth-is
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
worry anxiety scared
Why should he who is scared be careful?
courage choices bravery
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
white hair white-hair
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
success perseverance labor-day
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
health sleep healing
Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
drinking land sea
Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
marriage men wife
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
grief long asks
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
perseverance labor-day despair
He who labors diligently need never despair.
mortals conscience
Conscience is a God to all mortals.
running war fighting
A man that runs away may fight again.