Menander

Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Menander?

  • → Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
  • → He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
  • → Variety is the soul of pleasure.
  • → Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Menander.

  • → What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
  • → Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
  • → We make war that we may live in peace.
  • → The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Menander.

  • → And, above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself.
  • → Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
  • → It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
  • → One must live the way one thinks, otherwise one risks ending up thinking the way one has lived.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Menander. Which one?

  • → If I love you, what business is it of yours?
  • → Culture makes all men gentle.
  • → Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason – they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
  • → To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
  
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