Hesiod Quotes

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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

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Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

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If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.

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With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing.

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Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

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For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.

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Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.

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Then potter is potter's enemy, and
craftsman is craftsman's
rival; tramp is jealous of tramp
and singer of singer.

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Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

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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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Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

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Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

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Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

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The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

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Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

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From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.

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Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

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Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

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When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

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They do not how much more the half is than the whole.

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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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And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

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Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

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For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

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He is a fool who leaves certainties for uncertainties.

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

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