Quotes by Hesiod

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is...

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

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But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and...

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Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not...

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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close...

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At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving...

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Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger...

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Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

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A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

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A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great...

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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes...

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