Quotes By Hesiod

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.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.