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Hesiod: Badness you can...

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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 steer is the way to it.

Source: Works and Days, Line 293.
-- Hesiod, (Jan 0 c. 700-????), Greek poet; The Father of Greek Didactic Poetry wrote Works and Days, Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles.


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