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

τα σύκα σύκα, την σκάφην σκάφην Χε^ων,

Menander

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Topic

Keeping it real Honesty

Author

Menander

Medium

Fragment

Language

Greek

Time

290 BC 290s BC 3rd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Greece Europe Ancient Greece

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Plutarch. Apophthegmata Laconica. c. 100 AD.

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Medium
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Genre
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Era
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Authentication Score 3
Citation

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One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on.

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Author

Heraclitus
Medium
Presocratic fragment Fragment
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
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Language
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Time
5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B12.

Current Citation

Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, DK B12.