Hesiod Quotes - Page 5

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• An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

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  Evil, Doe, Mischief

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• Never make a companion equal to a brother.

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  Brother, Sibling, Companionship

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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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• For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

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  Night, Men, Race

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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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• And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

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  Evil, Wish

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

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  Shame, Idleness

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

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  Mind, Literature, Zeus

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• Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

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  Work, Laziness, Shame

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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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• False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

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  Men, Literature, Poverty

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• The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

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  Men, Evil People, Doe

  Works and Days l. 265

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• An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

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  Mean, Fate, Income

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• The potter is at enmity with the potter.

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  Business, Potters, Enmity

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• Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

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  Order, May, Fruit

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• Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

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  Men, Treasure, Tongue

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• Labor is no disgrace.

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  Disgrace, Labor

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• Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

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  Design, Zeus, Occasions

  Hesiod, Apostolos N. Athanassakis (2004). “Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield”, p.77, JHU Press

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• A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

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  Men, Evil, Advice

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• Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

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  Loss, Gains

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• The Gods rank work above virtues.

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  Work, Virtue

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• The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

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  Men, Wrath, Heaven

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• And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

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  Men, Hair, Race

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