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
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.
inspirational silence silence-is
Silence is often advantageous.
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