Quotes By Hesiod
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
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He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
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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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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.
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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 steep is the way to it.
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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.
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He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
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So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
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