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
silence silent silence-is
Nothing is more useful than silence.
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.
school experience curriculum
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
determination fighting weather
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.
work workmen stills
The workman still is greater than his work.
men good-man goodness
The good man makes others good.
experience happened
Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
men experience alive
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
art adversity men
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
pain men want
If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.
latin god-love young
Whom the gods love dies young.
evil excess goodness
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.