Quotes By Hesiod

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

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 steep is the way to it.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.