The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.


Hesiod

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A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
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The fool knows after he's suffered.
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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of e...
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Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor...
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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
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The half is greater than the whole.
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Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
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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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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
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False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; sh...
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Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
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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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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
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No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
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So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn jus...
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If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
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The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
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Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
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Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
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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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And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly o...
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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 wh...
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Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will ...
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
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If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
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Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
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When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy
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Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
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A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
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Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
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It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
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In dealing even with your brother have witnesses, though laughingly
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