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The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. — Hesiod

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage. — Hesiod

Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap. — Hesiod

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of. — Hesiod

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike. — Hesiod

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man — Hesiod

The fool knows after he's suffered. — Hesiod

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. — Hesiod

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy. — Hesiod

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great. — Hesiod

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find. — Hesiod

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you. — Hesiod

The Gods rank work above virtues. — Hesiod

Labor is no disgrace. — Hesiod

The fool learns by suffering. — Hesiod

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. — Hesiod

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work. — Hesiod

If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much. — Hesiod

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man. — Hesiod

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame. — Hesiod

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. — Hesiod

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. — Hesiod

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

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses. — Hesiod

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again. — Hesiod

The potter is at enmity with the potter. — Hesiod

The fool knows after he has suffered. — Hesiod

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. — Hesiod

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. — Hesiod

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear. — Hesiod

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples. — Hesiod

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. — Hesiod

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. — Hesiod

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. — Hesiod

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. — Hesiod

Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil — Hesiod

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy. — Hesiod

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong. — Hesiod

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. — Hesiod

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly. — Hesiod

The ill design is most ill for the designer. — Hesiod

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray. — Hesiod

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it. — Hesiod

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. — Hesiod

If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first. — Hesiod

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes. — Hesiod

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers. — Hesiod

Never make a companion equal to a brother. — Hesiod

The half is greater than the whole. — Hesiod

Timeliness is best in all matters. — Hesiod

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better. — Hesiod

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night. — Hesiod

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. — Hesiod

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you. — Hesiod

Men must sweat to attain virtue. — Hesiod

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. — Hesiod

Money is life to us wretched mortals. — Hesiod

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

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. — Hesiod

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. — Hesiod

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue. — Hesiod

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest. — Hesiod

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

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. — Hesiod

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils. — Hesiod

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole. — Hesiod

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. — Hesiod

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster — Hesiod

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big. — Hesiod

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of. — Hesiod

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race. — Hesiod

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness. — Hesiod

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

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late. — Hesiod

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right. — Hesiod

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. — Hesiod

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season. — Hesiod

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole. — Hesiod

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. — Hesiod

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after. — Hesiod

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer. — Hesiod

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one — Heraclitus

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit. — Hesiod

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. — Hesiod

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. — Hesiod

Best is the man who thinks for himself. — Hesiod

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner. — Hesiod

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus. — Hesiod

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. — Hesiod

Bacteria: The only culture some people have. — Hesiod

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn. — Hesiod

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love. — Hesiod

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things. — Hesiod

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin. — Hesiod

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses. — Hesiod

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven. — Hesiod

It will not always be summer; build barns. — Hesiod

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships. — Hesiod

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. — Hesiod