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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. - [Neighbors] Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. - [Proverbs] At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late. - [Conservation] Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - [Excellence] Fools! not to know how far an humble lot Exceeds abundance by injustice got; How health and temperance bless the rustic swain, While luxury destroys her pamper'd train. - [Temperance] In dealing even with your brother have witnesses, though laughingly. - [Witness] It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy. - [Order] Money is life to us wretched mortals. - [Money] No day is wholly unproductive of good. - [Proverbs] The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. - [Procrastination] The voice of the people is the voice of God. - [Voice] There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of. - [Nicknames] But what says the Greek? "In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray." - Fragments [Time] We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true. - The Theogony (line 27) [Truth] Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. - The Theogony (line 754) [Sleep] On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words. - The Theogony (line 82) [Words] In man speaks God. - Works and Days [Speech] The potter is at enmity with the potter. - Works and Days [Business] The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. - Works and Days (bk. I, l. 43) [Envy] No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. - Works and Days (I, 763) [Public] 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. - Works and Days (l. 164) [Spirits] Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. - Works and Days (l. 240) [Suffering] And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. - Works and Days (V, 264) [Wishes]
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