Quotes By Hesiod

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.