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• Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

  Hesiod

  Sweet, Men, Flow

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

  Hesiod

  Evil, Gossip, Speech

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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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• Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

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  Mean, Moments, All Things

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• Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

  Hesiod

  Trust, Literature, Reconstruction

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

  Hesiod

  Littles, Bigs

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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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• Men must sweat to attain virtue.

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  Men, Sweat, Virtue

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• The ill design is most ill for the designer.

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  Design, Designer, Ill

  Opera et dies, 266 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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• Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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  Toil, Shame, Source

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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.

  Hesiod

  Fashion, Men, Design

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

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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.

  Hesiod

  Men, Class, Righteous

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.

  Hesiod

  Names, Hospitality

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

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  Literature, Ruins, Gains

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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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