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Hesiod

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It will not always be summer; build barns.


— Hesiod


#barns #build #summer #will

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


— Hesiod


#due #factor #important #important factor #measure

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.


— Hesiod


#evil #her #justice #kings #path

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


— Hesiod


#birth #children #give #grief #happens

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


— Hesiod


#idleness #which #work

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.


— Hesiod


#life #means #miserable #mortals

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

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.


— Hesiod


#bottom #cask #comes #end #fill

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.


— Hesiod


#age #bring #far #home #house

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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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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