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“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”

“First of all the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus made a golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Cronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: miserable age rested not on them.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 109.

“A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it”

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Source: Works and Days

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

Source: Works and Days and Theogony

“Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.”

Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 754.

“Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 715.

“It will not always be summer, build barns.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 503.

“Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 707.

“Neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 23.

“For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 101.

“Hunger is altogether a meet comrade for the sluggard.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 302.

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

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 346.

“But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is full.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 100.

“And she conceived and bore to Zeus, who delights in the thunderbolt, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus.”

Catalogues of Women and Eoiae 3 (Loeb, H.G. Evelyn-White).
Catalogue of Women or Eoiae

“Work the work which the gods ordained for men, lest in bitter anguish of spirit you with your wife and children seek your livelihood amongst your neighbours, and they do not heed you.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 397.

“Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.”

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Variant translation: At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 368 (translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White).

“Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 287.

“The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 719.

“They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 116.

“The man who trusts womankind trusts deceivers.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 375.