Hesiod
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Hesiod
The fool knows after he s suffered.
Hesiod
Experience
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
Hesiod
Excellence
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
Hesiod
Marriage
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Hesiod
Materialism
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
Jealousy
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
Hesiod
Patience
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
Hesiod
Neighbors
If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
Hesiod
Things and Little Things
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
Truth
The half is greater than the whole.
Hesiod
Appreciation