Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

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• Hesiod:

  The fool knows after he's suffered.

• Hesiod:

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

• Hesiod:

  Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

• Hesiod:

  Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

• Hesiod:

  When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

• Hesiod:

  We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to s

• Hesiod:

  At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bott

• Hesiod:

  If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

• Hesiod:

  Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

• Hesiod:

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