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Quotation from Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod
“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.”
Theogony and Works and Days, Works and Days, l. 311, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White
Part of Hesiod's praise of labour, after comparing the idle man to drones who eat the bees' honey.
Citation: "Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace." — Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, Works and Days, l. 311, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. (id hesiod-theogony-and-works-and-days-q4)
Portrait: Bust of an unknown Greek poet, long identified as Hesiod (the 'Pseudo-Seneca'), Roman copy, British Museum, Unknown Roman sculptor, Public domain.
