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Hesiod Inspirational Quotes (80)

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Toil is no source of shame idleness is shame.
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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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They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
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He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.
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In work there is no shame shame is in the idleness.
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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
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Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
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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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And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
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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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Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
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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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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
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Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.
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The fool learns by suffering.
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If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
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Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.
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The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.
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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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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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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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The fool knows after he has suffered.
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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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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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