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Menander

Greek: Μένανδρος

Menander (ca. 342–291 BC), the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso. He presumably derived his taste for comic drama from his uncle Alexis.


“... when a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.”
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“Няма нищо по-силно от думите.”
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“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.”
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“Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. ”
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“Wer davonläuft kann später kämpfen.”
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