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The artist envies what the artist gains,
The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
Ἄλλοτε μητρυιὴ πέλει ἡμέρη, ἄλλοτε μήτηρ.
Works and Days (-700)
There the sons of obscure Night hold their habitation, Sleep and Death, dread gods.
Theogony (-700)
But they will give straight judgements to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city flourishes, and the people prosper in it.
Works and Days (-700)
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself,
and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things. He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person). But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.
We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Theogony (-700)
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.
Works and Days (-700)
Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.
Theogony (-700)
Work the work which the gods ordained for men, lest in bitter anguish of spirit you with your wife and children seek your livelihood amongst your neighbours, and they do not heed you.
Works and Days (-700)
Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.
Works and Days (-700)
Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right age, while you are not far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right age for marriage.
Works and Days (-700)
And she conceived and bare to Zeus who delights in the thunderbolt two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus.
Catalogue of Women or Eoiae (-520)
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the greater the lading, the greater will be your piled gain, if only the winds will keep back their harmful gales.
Works and Days (-700)
Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.
Theogony (-700)
For trust and mistrust, alike ruin men.
Works and Days (-700)
For in misery men grow old quickly.
Works and Days (-700)
The eye of Zeus sees all and knows all,
And, if he wants, he's looking here right now,
And the kind of justice this city harbors
Doesn't fool him one bit.