Quotes By Hesiod

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

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

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.