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For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
- Hesiod
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#Faith
#Men
#Want
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
- Hesiod
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#Man
#Poor
#Poverty
#Wealth
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
- Hesiod
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#Justice
#Over
#Race
#She
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
- Hesiod
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#Craftsman
#Jealous
#Poet
#Poor
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
- Hesiod
#Become
#Big
#Little
#Soon
#Would
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.
- Hesiod
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#Just
#Land
#People
#Strangers
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
- Hesiod
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#Own
#Person
#Try
#Your
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
- Hesiod
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#Fashions
#He
#Plan
#Who
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
- Hesiod
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#Children
#Grief
#Heart
#Spirit
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
- Hesiod
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#City
#Evil
#Man
#Often
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
- Hesiod
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#Brings
#Death
#Giving
#Good
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
- Hesiod
#Beginning
#Bottom
#End
#Late
#Too Late
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
- Hesiod
#Man
#Match
#Stronger
#Suffering
#Victory
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
- Hesiod
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#God-Given
#Money
#Should
#Wealth
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
- Hesiod
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#Equal
#Gain
#Ruin
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
- Hesiod
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#Best
#Mean
#Moment
#Things
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.
- Hesiod
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#Profit
#Ship
#Will
#Your
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
- Hesiod
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#Justice
#Path
#People
#Speech
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
- Hesiod
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#Bear
#Difficult
#Light
#Some
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
- Hesiod
#Idleness
#Shame
#Source
#Toil
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
- Hesiod
#Brother
#Deal
#Pleasant
#Witness
#Your
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
- Hesiod
#Grow
#Misfortune
#Mortals
#Swiftly
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
- Hesiod
#Life
#Means
#Miserable
#Mortals
The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.
- Hesiod
#Best
#Blessed
#Call
#Men
#Rest
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
- Hesiod
#Day
#Mother
#Our
#Sometimes
#Stepmother
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
- Hesiod
#Know
#Real
#Speak
#True
#Will
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
- Hesiod
#Best
#Enemy
#Human
#Things
#Worst
The fool knows after he's suffered.
- Hesiod
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#Fool
#He
#Knows
#Suffered
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
- Hesiod
#Bad Man
#Bad
#City
#Deeds
#Man
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
- Hesiod
#Advantage
#Bad
#Good
#Great
#Neighbor
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
- Hesiod
#Counsel
#Evil
#Himself
#Man
#Who
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
- Hesiod
#Add
#Again
#Little
#Shall
#Soon
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
- Hesiod
#Age
#Marriage
#Old Age
#Wish
#Women
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
- Hesiod
#Age
#Home
#Marriage
#Time
#Wife
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
- Hesiod
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#Important
#Measure
#Right
#Timing
It will not always be summer; build barns.
- Hesiod
#Always
#Build
#Summer
#Will
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
- Hesiod
#Trust
#Trusted
#Whoever
#Woman
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.
- Hesiod
#Excellence
#Long
#Road
#Sweat
#Way
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
- Hesiod
#Bad
#Better
#Good
#Man
#Wife
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
- Hesiod
#Brother
#Companion
#Equal
#Make
#Never
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
- Hesiod
#Disgrace
#Idleness
#Which
#Work
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
- Hesiod
#Either
#Escape
#Mind
#Possible
#Zeus
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
- Hesiod
#Barn
#Deceive
#Funny
#She
#Woman
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
- Hesiod
#Love
#Man
#Romantic
#Speech
#Sweet
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