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

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Hesiod: '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.'

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Hesiod: 'He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.'

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Hesiod: 'Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.'

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Hesiod: 'The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.'

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Hesiod: 'Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.'

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Hesiod: 'Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.'

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Hesiod: 'A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.'

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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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Hesiod: 'At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.'

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Hesiod: 'It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.'

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Hesiod: 'Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.'

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Polybius: 'Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.'

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Javan: 'Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.'

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Javan: 'I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.'

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