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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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• 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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• He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

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  Men, Suffering, Victory

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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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• 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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• Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

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  Mother, Peace, Nursing

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

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  Race, Justice, Literature

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

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  Evil, Gains, Disaster

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

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  Bent

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

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• But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

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  Men, Thinking

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

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  Work, Men, Hunger

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• Even though it's hard, it's easy.

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  Easy, Hard

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