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Hesiod Quotes

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: Greek
Born: 800 BC
Died: 720 BC

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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
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It will not always be summer; build barns.
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
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Never make a companion equal to a brother.
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How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
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Words

Accompanies, Confidence, Either, False, Greatly, Harms, Him, Man, Poor, Poverty, Profits, Shame, Wealth

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Confidence, Either, False, Greatly, Him, Man, Poor, Poverty, Shame, Wealth