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• He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

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  Evil, Woe, Counselor

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• Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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  Toil, Shame, Source

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• ...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

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  Heart, Son, Men

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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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  Beautiful, Wise, Heart

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• Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

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  Exercise, Long, Mind

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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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  Men, Perfect, May

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• The fool knows after he has suffered.

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  Stupidity, Fool, Knows

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.45, University of Michigan Press

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• Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Sisterhood

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• He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

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  Bent

  Hesiod (2008). “Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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• But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

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  Men, Thinking

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• No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

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  Voice, People, Gossip

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• Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

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  Men, Sweat, Long

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• Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

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  Friendship, Enemy, Hospitality

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

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  Stupidity, Trying, Stronger

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.43, University of Michigan Press

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

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  Men, Enemy, He Man

  Hesiod, Callimachus, Theognis, James Davies, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.92, London : H.G. Bohn

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

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  Enemy, Dinner, Invites

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.59, University of Michigan Press

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• No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

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  Rumours, Spread

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• Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

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  Children, Grief, Heart

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• So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

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  Kings, People, Evil

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• The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

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  Men, Advice, Sound

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• Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• 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.

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  Literature, Ships, Profit

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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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  Men, Doe, Poverty

  Opera et dies, 317-9 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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• Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

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  Brother, Fixed, Witness

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• The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

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  Men, Thinking, Doe

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