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If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.
Works and Days (-700)
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 (-700)
Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
Works and Days (-700)
He is a fool who tries to withstand the stronger, for he does not get the mastery and suffers pain besides his shame.
Works and Days (-700)
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 (-700)
Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.
Works and Days (-700)
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand
To follow what is out of reach.
Catalogue of Women or Eoiae (-520)
Then, following th'immortals, Fate and Modesty
Mankind deserted, leaving to mortal men
A legacy of woe that nought can cure.
Works and Days (-700)
Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.
Works and Days (-700)
Work is no disgrace; it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Works and Days (-700)
Hunger is altogether a meet comrade for the sluggard.
Works and Days (-700)
From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.
Theogony (-700)
Only when he has suffered does the fool learn.
Works and Days (-700)
I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.
False shame keeps company with him that's poor;
Shame that or harries man or profits him.
Shame poverty pursues, and rashness wealth.
Works and Days (-700)
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.
Theogony (-700)
Whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years.
Theogony (-700)
It is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus.
Theogony (-700)
Neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men.
Works and Days (-700)
But what says the Greek? "In the morning of life, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray."