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Hesiod Quotes about Design

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A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

Hesiod
Fashion, Men, Design
Hesiod, Martin Litchfield West (1989). “Theogony ; and, Works and days”, Oxford University Press, USA

Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.

Hesiod
Eye, Design, Spy
Hesiod (1822). “The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII”, p.43

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

Hesiod
Design, Designer, Ill
Opera et dies, 266 (translated by M L West, 1988).

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Hesiod
Design, Zeus, Occasions
Hesiod, Apostolos N. Athanassakis (2004). “Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield”, p.77, JHU Press

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