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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.


Hesiod

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The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
HESIOD Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough a...
HESIOD A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
HESIOD Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
HESIOD We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to sp...
HESIOD If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
HESIOD The fool knows after he's suffered.
HESIOD Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of e...
HESIOD Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough a...
HESIOD Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor...
HESIOD A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
HESIOD The half is greater than the whole.
HESIOD Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
HESIOD I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, fo...
HESIOD Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
HESIOD A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing
HESIOD Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
HESIOD He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
HESIOD Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
HESIOD False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; sh...
HESIOD Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
HESIOD Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of e...
HESIOD For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
HESIOD Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
HESIOD No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
HESIOD So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn jus...
HESIOD If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
HESIOD The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
HESIOD Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
HESIOD Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
HESIOD It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
HESIOD And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
HESIOD Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly o...
HESIOD He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner...
HESIOD But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress wh...
HESIOD Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will ...
HESIOD Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
HESIOD Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
HESIOD If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
HESIOD Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
HESIOD Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
HESIOD He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
HESIOD When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness
HESIOD It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy
HESIOD Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
HESIOD A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
HESIOD Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
HESIOD It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
HESIOD Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough a...
HESIOD Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
HESIOD In dealing even with your brother have witnesses, though laughingly
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