Hesiod - Man Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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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