And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
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.
The ill design is most ill for the designer.
There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
The potter is at enmity with the potter.
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
Labor is no disgrace.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
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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