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• Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 412...
• For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 265...
• Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 304...
• Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 240...
• The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 579...
• They died, as if o'ercome by sleep. -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 116
• A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 346...
• Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 40...
• Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 353...