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Hesiod
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Toil is no source of shame idleness is shame.
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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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Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.
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And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
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Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
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The Gods rank work above virtues.
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The fool knows after he has suffered.
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
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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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Bacteria: The only culture some people have.
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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
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A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
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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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For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
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Only fools need suffer to learn.
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