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| We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true. |
| The Theogony. Line 27. |
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| On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, 1 and from his lips drop gentle words. |
| The Theogony. Line 82. |
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| Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. 2 |
| The Theogony. Line 754. |
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| From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love. 3 |
| The Theogony. Line 910. |
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| Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet. 4 |
| Works and Days. Line 25. |
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| Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole. 5 |
| Works and Days. Line 40. |
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| 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. |
| Works and Days. Line 101. |
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| They died, as if o’ercome by sleep. |
| Works and Days. Line 116. |
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| Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man. 6 |
| Works and Days. Line 240. |
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| For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another. |
| Works and Days. Line 265. |
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| Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man’s brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first. |
| Works and Days. Line 287. |
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| 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. |
| Works and Days. Line 293. |
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| Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season. |
| Works and Days. Line 304. |
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| Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy. |
| Works and Days. Line 342. |
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| A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing. |
| Works and Days. Line 346. |
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| Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses. |
| Works and Days. Line 353. |
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| If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great. |
| Works and Days. Line 360. |
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| 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. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly. |
| Works and Days. Line 366. |
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| Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses. |
| Works and Days. Line 412. |
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| The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work. |
| Works and Days. Line 579. |
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| Observe moderation. In all, the fitting season is best. |
| Works and Days. Line 694. |
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| Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong. |
| Works and Days. Line 707. |
