Hesiod - Theogony

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

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

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

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

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

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From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.

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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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With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing.

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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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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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From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

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

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

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