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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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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
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Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
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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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The fool knows after he has suffered.
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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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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
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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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Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.
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The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
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Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus
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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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Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.
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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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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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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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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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In work there is no shame shame is in the idleness.
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