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• In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

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  Perseverance, Sweat, Long

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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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  Men, Class, Righteous

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.51, University of Michigan Press

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• Men must sweat to attain virtue.

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  Men, Sweat, Virtue

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• Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.

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  Eye, Design, Spy

  Hesiod (1822). “The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII”, p.43

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• Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men,
  conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

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  Love, Men, Prudent

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• Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

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  Prayer, Advice, Action

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• Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.

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  Littles, Bigs

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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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  Procrastination, Men, Hands

  Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (2006). “Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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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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  Fashion, Men, Design

  Hesiod, Martin Litchfield West (1989). “Theogony ; and, Works and days”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

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  Love You, Giving, Helping

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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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  Winning, Men, Wife

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• Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

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  Trust, Literature, Reconstruction

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• If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

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  Evil, Gossip, Speech

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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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  Sweet, Talking, Fascination

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.63, University of Michigan Press

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• He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

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  Men, Suffering, Victory

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• They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

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  Half, Fool, Know How

  Hesiod (2015). “Theogony”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

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• Money is life to us wretched mortals.

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  Money, Wretched, Mortals

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• Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

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  Literature, Ruins, Gains

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• A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

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  Blessing, Neighbor, Good Neighbor

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• In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

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  Men, Race, Envy

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• Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

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  Men, Needy, Providers

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

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• Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

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  Mother, Peace, Nursing

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• Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

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  Men, Cities, Suffering

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• Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

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  Evil, Gains, Disaster

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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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