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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.


— Hesiod


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Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.


— Hesiod


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False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.


— Hesiod


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For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.


— Hesiod


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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.


— Hesiod


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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.


— Hesiod


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How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.


— Hesiod


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If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.


— Hesiod


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


— Hesiod


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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.


— Hesiod


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His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic an individual with a distinctive role to play. : /ˈhiːsiəd/ or /ˈhɛsiəd/;Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC around the same time as Homer. Ancient authors credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs.

Ancient authors credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic an individual with a distinctive role to play. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology farming techniques early economic thought (he is sometimes identified as the first economist) archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping.

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