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“The deathless gods are near among men and mark all those who oppress their fellows with crooked judgements, and reck not the anger of the gods.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 249.

Men , God , Anger

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

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Variant translation: Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 240.

Suffering , Evil

“There's no place like home.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 365.

Home

“This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end: and good again is he likewise who shall have complied with one advising him well: but whoso neither himself hath understanding, nor when he hears another, lays it to heart, he on the other hand is a worthless man.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 293.

Understanding , Heart , Perfection

“The generation of the man who swears truly is better thenceforward.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 285.

“He is a fool who tries to withstand the stronger, for he does not get the mastery and suffers pain besides his shame.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 210.

Pain , Fools , Suffering

“Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 25.

“For in misery men grow old quickly.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 93.

Men

“If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.”

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Variant translation: If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 361.

“From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.”

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Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 910.

Love

“Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 304.

Season

“Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 410.

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

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 694.

Time

“It is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus.”

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Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 613.

“He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.”

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οἷ γ᾽ αὐτῷ κακὰ τεύχει ἀνὴρ ἄλλῳ κακὰ τεύχων
ἡ δὲ κακὴ βουλὴ τῷ βουλεύσαντι κακίστη.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe,
and evil counsel recoils on the counsellor. https://archive.org/stream/b24865898#page/432/mode/2up
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), lines 265-266

Evil

“There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 11.

“Sometimes a day is a step mother, sometimes a mother.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 825.

“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 311.

“The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.”

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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 579.

Speed