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Hesiod

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From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.


— Hesiod


#love

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.


— Hesiod


#trusted #whoever #woman

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.


— Hesiod


#craftsman #grudge #jealous #poet #poor

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.


— Hesiod


#happy #his #love #man #mouth

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.


— Hesiod


#mother #our #sometimes #stepmother

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.


— Hesiod


#bad #bad one #better #good #good wife

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


— Hesiod


#idleness #which #work

The fool knows after he's suffered.


— Hesiod


#fool #knows #suffered

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.


— Hesiod


#bad #calamity #good #great #great advantage

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.


— Hesiod


#close #easily #excellence #front #get






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Did you know about Hesiod?

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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