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poet Fool Mythology ancient Greek

The fool knows after he's suffered.

- Hesiod

Other quotes by Hesiod


Wife Nothing Man

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

- Hesiod
Rest Men

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.

- Hesiod
Calamity

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

- Hesiod
Wealth Man

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
Death

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

- Hesiod
Light

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

- Hesiod

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