Hesiod Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

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  Land, Cities, People

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• Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

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  Work, Men, Hunger

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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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• An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

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  Evil, Doe, Mischief

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• Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

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  Friendship, Brother, Firsts

  Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, Theognis, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.113, London : H.G. Bohn

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• Even though it's hard, it's easy.

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  Easy, Hard

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• Never make a companion equal to a brother.

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  Brother, Sibling, Companionship

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• In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

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  Morning, Giving, Evening

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• Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

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  Life, Mean, Inspire

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.99, University of Michigan Press

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• The fool learns by suffering.

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  Suffering, Fool, Coping

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• Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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  Men, Cities, Evil

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• Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

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  Loss, Men, Fruit

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• Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

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  Potters, Singers, Beggar

  Of a quarrel within a village. Opera et dies, 25 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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• It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

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  Mind, Literature, Zeus

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• Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

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  Giving, Literature

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• Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

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  Generosity, Done, Half

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• The half is greater than the whole.

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  Appreciation, Half, Whole

  Works and Days l. 40

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• Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

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  Brother, Sleep, Night

  Hesiod, Callimachus, Theognis, James Davies, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.38, London : H.G. Bohn

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• No day is wholly unproductive of good.

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  Unproductive

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• The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

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  Journey, Men, Dawn

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• How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

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  Light, Literature, Bears

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• In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

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  Shame, Idleness

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• Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

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  Literature, Wealth, Saving Money

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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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• 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.

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  Home, Years, Wife

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