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Hesiod QUOTES

  • A day is either a mother or a stepmother.

  • The fool knows after he has suffered.

  • Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

  • It will not always be summer; build barns.



  • A man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

  • It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

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

  • Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

  • Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

  • Work is no disgrace; it is idleness which is a disgrace.




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