Quotes By Hesiod

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

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.

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.

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

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

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

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.

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

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

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

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.

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.