That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Hesiod

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No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.

Hesiod


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A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Hesiod


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So you, the kings, you too must reflect upon this punishment, because the immortals are here in the midst of manking, observing those who do not hold the gods in awe...but grind each other down with crooked judgements

Hesiod


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…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

Hesiod

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From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

Hesiod

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But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

Hesiod


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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Hesiod

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El alba pone al hombre en camino, y lo pone también a trabajar.

Hesiod

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For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.

Hesiod


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