Hesiod Quotes

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On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.

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Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

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Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

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On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.

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Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

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It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

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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, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

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He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

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If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.

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And she conceived and bore to Zeus, who delights in the thunderbolt, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus.

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Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

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When the bottle has just been opened, and when
it's giving out, drink deep;
be sparing when it's half-full; but it's useless
to spare the fag end.

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Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows.

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From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

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Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.

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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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Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

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A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

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Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.

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This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

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They once taught Hesiod beauteous song, when he was shepherding his sheep below holy Helicon.

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Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

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At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle be sparing.

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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

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