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Hesiod Quotes

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1
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
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2
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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3
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
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4
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
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5
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
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6
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
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9
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
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10
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
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11
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
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12
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
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13
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
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14
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
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15
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
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16
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
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17
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
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18
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
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19
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
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20
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
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21
So the people will pay the penalty for their kingspresumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
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22
The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.
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23
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
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24
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
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25
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
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26
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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27
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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28
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
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29
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
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30
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
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31
It will not always be summer; build barns.
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32
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
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33
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
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34
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
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35
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
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