Quotes By Hesiod

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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