Quotes from bookWorks and Days
The Works and Days is a didactic poem of some 800 lines written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts.
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
“For trust and mistrust, alike ruin men.”
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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 372.
“Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.”
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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 40; often translated as "The half is greater than the whole."
“Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.”
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Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 412.
“Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.”
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Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 352; compare: "the gains of the wicked bring trouble", Book of Proverbs 15:6.
