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“A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.” quote by Hesiod — Download Open image

“A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.”

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

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But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

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Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

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