John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Hesiod. (fl. 8th cent.? B.C.) (continued) |
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From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love. 1 |
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. 2 |
Works and Days. Line 25. |
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Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole. 3 |
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. 4 |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
Note 1. See Milton, Quotation 262. [back] |
Note 2. See Gay, Quotation 17. [back] |
Note 3. Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.—Diogenes Laertius: Pittacus, ii. [back] |
Note 4. One man’s wickedness may easily become all men’s curse.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 463. [back] |