Random Quotes
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Riches cover a multitude of woes.Menander, Lady of Andros
Whom the gods love dies young.Menander, The Double Deceiver
Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.Menander, Unidentified fragment
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.Menander, Unidentified fragment
The man who runs may fight again.Menander, Monostikoi (Single Lines)
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers