Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
From Hesiod
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
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