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• So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

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  Kings, People, Evil

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• He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

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  Stupidity, Trying, Stronger

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.43, University of Michigan Press

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• No day is wholly unproductive of good.

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  Unproductive

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• We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

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  Truth, Real, Speak

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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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• The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

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  Men, Thinking, Doe

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• Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

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  Children, Grief, Heart

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

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  Giving, Literature

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• A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

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  Mother, Literature, Sometimes

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• Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

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  Trying, Literature, Mates

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• Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

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  Enemy, Dinner, Invites

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.59, University of Michigan Press

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• No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

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  Rumours, Spread

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• Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

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  Brother, Fixed, Witness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

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  Literature, Ships, Profit

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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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• Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

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  Men, Doe, Poverty

  Opera et dies, 317-9 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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• For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

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  Men, Literature, Want

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

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  Literature, Wealth, Saving Money

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