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Hesiod

-780 - -705 (75)

Hesiod
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Quote 1

A day is either a mother or a stepmother.

Quote 2

The fool knows after he has suffered.

Quote 3

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Quote 4

It will not always be summer; build barns.

Quote 5

A man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

Quote 6

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

Quote 7

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

Quote 8

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

Quote 9

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Quote 10

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