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Quotation from Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod
“Observe due measure: and proportion is best in all things.”
Theogony and Works and Days, Works and Days, l. 694, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White
The maxim closes advice on not loading all one's goods on a ship or overloading a wagon.
Citation: "Observe due measure: and proportion is best in all things." — Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, Works and Days, l. 694, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. (id hesiod-theogony-and-works-and-days-q5)
Portrait: Bust of an unknown Greek poet, long identified as Hesiod (the 'Pseudo-Seneca'), Roman copy, British Museum, Unknown Roman sculptor, Public domain.
