John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
Hesiod fl 8th ent? BC John Bartlett
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We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true. | |
The Theogony. Line 27. | |
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On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, 1 and from his lips drop gentle words. | |
The Theogony. Line 82. | |
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Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. 2 | |
The Theogony. Line 754. | |
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From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love. 3 | |
The Theogony. Line 910. | |
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Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet. 4 | |
Works and Days. Line 25. | |
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Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole. 5 | |
Works and Days. Line 40. | |
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For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus. | |
Works and Days. Line 101. | |
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They died, as if o’ercome by sleep. | |
Works and Days. Line 116. | |
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Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man. 6 | |
Works and Days. Line 240. | |
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For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another. | |
Works and Days. Line 265. | |
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Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man’s brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first. | |
Works and Days. Line 287. | |
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This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end. | |
Works and Days. Line 293. | |
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Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season. | |
Works and Days. Line 304. | |
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Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy. | |
Works and Days. Line 342. | |
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A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing. | |
Works and Days. Line 346. | |
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Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses. | |
Works and Days. Line 353. | |
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If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great. | |
Works and Days. Line 360. | |
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At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly. | |
Works and Days. Line 366. | |
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Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses. | |
Works and Days. Line 412. | |
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The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work. | |
Works and Days. Line 579. | |
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Observe moderation. In all, the fitting season is best. | |
Works and Days. Line 694. | |
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Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong. | |
Works and Days. Line 707. |
Note 1. See Coleridge, Quotation 34. [back] |
Note 2. See Shelley, Quotation 26. [back] |
Note 3. See Milton, Quotation 262. [back] |
Note 4. See Gay, Quotation 17. [back] |
Note 5. Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.—Diogenes Laertius: Pittacus, ii. [back] |
Note 6. One man’s wickedness may easily become all men’s curse.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 463. [back] |