Quotes By Hesiod

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

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

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.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

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.

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.

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.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

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.

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

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