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But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
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A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
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For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.
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Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
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Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them, and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.
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For here now is the age of iron. Never by daytime will there be an end to hard work and pain, nor in the night to weariness, when the gods will send anxieties to trouble us.
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So you, the kings, you too must reflect upon this punishment, because the immortals are here in the midst of manking, observing those who do not hold the gods in awe...but grind each other down with crooked judgements
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I mean you well, Perses, you great idiot, and I will tell you. Look, badness is easy to have, you can take it by handfuls without effort. The road that way is smooth and starts here beside you. But between us and virtue the immortals have put what will make us sweat. The road to virtue is long and goes steep up hill, hard climbing at first, but the last of it, when you get to the summit (if you get there) is easy going after the hard part.
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Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters,
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If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first.
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Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows;
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It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.
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Better marry a maiden, so you can teach her good manners, and in particular marry one who lives close by you. Look her well over first. Don't marry what will make your neighbors laugh at you, for while there's nothing better a man can win him than a good wife, there's nothing more dismal than a bad one.
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It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn you to be carful in this. When the bottle has just been opened, and when it's giving out, drink deep; be sparing when it's half-full; but it's useless to spare the fag end.
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From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, and, when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the Horse's Spring or Olmeius, make their fair, lovely dances upon highest Helicon and move with vigorous feet. Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter the..
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He does mischief to himself who does mischief to another, and evil planned harms the plotter most.
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When quarrel and strife arose among the immortals, if one of them that dwells on Olympus speaks false, Zeus sends Iris to bring the gods' great oath from far off in a golden jug, the celebrated golden water that drops from a high, sheer cliff and, far below the wide-pathed earth, flows from the holy river through dark night, a branch of Oceanus. A tenth part is her share: nine parts Oceanus winds round the earth and the broad back of the se..
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From the Heliconian Muses, let us now begin the song Of those who hold the great and sacred hill of Helicon, And dance on tender feet around the dark spring in a row, And round about the altar of the son of Kronos go; And when in the Permessos they have bathed their soft, young skin, Or sacred stream Olmeios or the fountain Hippocrene,
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On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.
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Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.
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From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.
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They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.
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Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
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Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
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The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
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