68 Quotes by Menander

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.

The workman still is greater than his work.

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

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.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.