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We Know To Tell Many Fictions Like To Truths, And We Know, When We Will, To Speak What Is True.
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We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we
will, to speak what is true.
-- Hesiod (c. 700 BC)
-- The Theogony, Line 27
Related:
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod...
From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.
-- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- The Theogony, Line 910...
Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death. -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- The Theogony, Line 754
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, -- Hesiod (c.
700 BC) -- The Theogony, Line 82...
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...
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...
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...