Hesiod

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

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A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

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Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

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Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.

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Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

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Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

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Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

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How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

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For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by…

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Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

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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…

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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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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

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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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The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels…

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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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“So you, the kings, you too must reflect upon this punishment, because the immortals are here in the midst of manking, observing…

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“Better marry a maiden, so you can teach her good manners, and in particular marry one who lives close by you. Look…

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The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

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In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

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Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

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When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.

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Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

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Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

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The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

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Never make a companion equal to a brother.

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Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

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He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

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But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for…

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Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

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Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

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Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

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