290s BC

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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

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Plutarch. Apophthegmata Laconica. c. 100 AD.

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This is living, not to live unto oneself alone.

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Menander. The Brothers in Love. c. 3rd century BC, fragment 508.

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Whom the gods love dies young.

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Menander. "Dis Exapaton [The Double Deceiver]." Plays and Fragments. c. 290 BC.

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Menander. "Twice a Swindler (Dis Exapaton)." Plays and Fragments, translated by Maurice Balme. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

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Menander. Unidentified fragment 651. c. 300 BC.

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The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.

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Menander. The Girl Who Gets Flogged. c. 300 BC.

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