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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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Hesiod was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
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Theogony
Works and Days
Catalogue of Women
Shield of Heracles
The Works and Days and Theogony
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