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HESIOD
Greek pastoral poet, father of Greek didactic poetry
(c. 800 BC - c. 720 BC)

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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