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Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Whom the gods love dies young

Menander: The Plays and Fragments

He whom the gods love dies young.

Menander: The Plays and Fragments

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefi...

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Culture makes all men gentle.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

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Menander

Dramatist

Born: 0342-01-01 BC

Died: 0291-01-01 BC

Menander (Greek: Μένανδρος; 342 BC – 291 BC), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens. He was the author of more than a hundred comedies, most of which are lost. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived in its entirety.More