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

το αμεΐν εάν τις την άΧηθειαν σκοπή, κακόν μεν εστίν, αλλ' άνα γκαΐον κακόν.

Menander

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Marriage

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

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Citation

Menander. Unidentified fragment 651. c. 300 BC.

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Medium
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Time
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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

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Era
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Hope is a waking dream.

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Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

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Source
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Aristotle. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 18.

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