Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. — Hesiod
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
In the original Greek
μέτρα φυλάσσεσθαι: καιρὸς δ᾽ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἄριστος.
Works and Days · 700 BC
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Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 694.
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Hesiod. Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι [Works and Days]. c. 700 BC, l. 694.