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

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  Literature, Ruins, Gains

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• 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.

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  Wise, Men, Pondering

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

  Hesiod

  Evil, Gains, Disaster

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

  Hesiod

  Bent

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

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• There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

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  Light, Evil, Nicknames

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Saving, Too Late, Literature

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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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• 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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• Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

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  Race, Justice, Literature

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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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• Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

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  Literature, Grows, Mortals

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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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• 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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• Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

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  Half, Fool, Know How

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