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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.


Hesiod

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The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
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HESIOD We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to sp...
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HESIOD So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn jus...
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HESIOD Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
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