Hesiod Quotes
"It will not always be summer; build barns."
- Hesiod
(Related: Summer, Will)
"Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin."
- Hesiod
(Related: Gain, Ruin)
"Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn."
- Hesiod
(Related: Woman)
"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
(Related: People, Land, Strangers)
"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
(Related: Profit, Will)
"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
(Related: Wealth, Confidence, Man, Poor, Poverty, Shame)
"For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one."
- Hesiod
(Related: Wife, Man, Nothing)
"Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor."
- Hesiod
(Related: Measure, Right)
"Never make a companion equal to a brother."
- Hesiod
(Related: Brother)
"For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike."
- Hesiod
(Related: Faith, Men, Want)
"Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race."
- Hesiod
(Related: End, Justice, Race)
"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age."
- Hesiod
(Related: Age, Marriage, Women, Cause, Old)
"It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus."
- Hesiod
(Related: Mind)
"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."
- Hesiod
(Related: Disorder, Enemy)
"If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big."
- Hesiod
"If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much."
- Hesiod
"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."
- Hesiod
(Related: Light)
"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."
- Hesiod
(Related: Victory, Disgrace, Man, Suffering)
"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."
- Hesiod
(Related: Evil)
"Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth."
- Hesiod
(Related: Man, Speech)
"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."
- Hesiod
(Related: Death, Giving)
"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune."
- Hesiod
(Related: Misfortune)
"The fool knows after he's suffered."
- Hesiod
(Related: Fool)
"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
(Related: Home, Marriage, Time, Wife, Right, Years)
"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
(Related: Beginning, End)
"Acquisition means life to miserable mortals."
- Hesiod
(Related: Life)
"A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother."
- Hesiod
(Related: Mother, Day)
"A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage."
- Hesiod
(Related: Calamity)
"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man."
- Hesiod
(Related: Evil, Man)
"Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds."
- Hesiod
(Related: Deeds, Man)
"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
(Related: Poor)
"Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things."
- 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
(Related: Men, Rest)
"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace."
- Hesiod
(Related: Work, Disgrace, Idleness)
"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."
- Hesiod
(Related: Evil, Man)
"Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame."
- Hesiod
(Related: Idleness, Shame)
"Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood."
- Hesiod
"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."
- Hesiod
(Related: Will)
"Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better."
- Hesiod
(Related: God, Wealth)
"When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness."
- Hesiod
(Related: Brother)
"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."
- Hesiod
(Related: Heart, Children, Grief, Spirit)
"Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers."
- Hesiod
(Related: Woman)
"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."
- Hesiod
(Related: People, Evil, Justice, Kings, Speech, Will)