Greek - Poet | 800 BC - 720 BC
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
Hesiod
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But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
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For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
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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.
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
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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.
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If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
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Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
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The fool knows after he's suffered.
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
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