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Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
Hesiod

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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.
Hesiod

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.
Hesiod

It will not always be summer; build barns.
Hesiod

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

Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Hesiod

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
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Best, Mean, Moment, Opportune, Preserve, Things

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Best, Mean, Moment, Opportune, Preserve