Hesiod Quotes
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Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.
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Men must sweat to attain virtue.
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But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
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No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.
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Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.
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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
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Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.
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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
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Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
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Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
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The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.
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Peace is a nursing mother to the land.
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Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.
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Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
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Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.
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How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
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Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.
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Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
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Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
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A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
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Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
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Only fools need suffer to learn.
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.
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Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
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There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.
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