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Plan harm for another and harm yourself most,
the evil we hatch always comes home to roost.

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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Works and Days (-700)

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Works and Days (-700)

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Works and Days (-700)

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.

Works and Days (-700)

Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.

Works and Days (-700)

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