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 <blockquote>To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense. Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness [Virtue] the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard. <blockquote>To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense. Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness [Virtue] the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.
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-[[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0132:card=274&highlight=sweat|Source]]</blockquote>+\\ 
 +SourceHesiodThe Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh GEvelyn-WhiteShield of HeraclesCambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. </blockquote>
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