Quotes By Hesiod

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

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.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

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

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.

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.

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

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

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

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

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

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.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

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

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

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.

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.