Monday, October 8, 2012

Hesiod Quotes

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


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. 
Hesiod 


Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. 
Hesiod 


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


Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers. 
Hesiod 


The fool knows after he's suffered. 
Hesiod 

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


A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. 
Hesiod 


It will not always be summer; build barns. 
Hesiod 


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


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


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


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


The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it. 
Hesiod 


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


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


Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. 
Hesiod 


Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. 
Hesiod 


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


Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. 
Hesiod 


When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness. 
Hesiod 


We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. 
Hesiod 


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. 
Hesiod 


If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big. 
Hesiod 


Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. 
Hesiod 


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


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


Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race. 
Hesiod 


Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. 
Hesiod 


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


Never make a companion equal to a brother. 
Hesiod 


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. 
Hesiod 


How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear. 
Hesiod 


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. 
Hesiod 


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


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


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


Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. 
Hesiod

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Hesiod 



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.
Hesiod 


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


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

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