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Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

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The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

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Labor is no disgrace.

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Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

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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.

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The half is greater than the whole.

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An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

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The Gods rank work above virtues.

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There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

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Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

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An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

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The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

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A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

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And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

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Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.