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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. ↗

— Hesiod

#birth #children #give #grief #happens

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. ↗

— Hesiod

#freight #greater #large #larger #load

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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He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#against #deprived #disgrace #himself #man

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. ↗

— Hesiod

#misfortune #mortals #swiftly

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#attain #available #composition #cosmic #cosmic rays

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#between #category #certain #continuously #growing

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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