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Poem · Didactic poem

Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows.

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 7.6

Poem · Didactic poem

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 3.8

Poem · Didactic poem

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

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 3.8

Poem

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

Hesiod

Theogony · 700 BC

★ 3.7

Poem · Didactic poem

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 3.7

Poem · Didactic poem

The fool learns by suffering.

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 2.2

Poem · Didactic poem

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

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 2.2

Poem

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

Hesiod

Theogony · 700 BC

★ 2.1

Poem · Didactic poem

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

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 2.1

Poem

On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.

Hesiod

Theogony · 700 BC

★ 1.3

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