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

— Hesiod , book Works and Days

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

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Ἔργον δ᾽ οὐδὲν ὄνειδος, ἀεργίη δέ τ᾽ ὄνειδος.

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