Hesiod Quotes - Page 3

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

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

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

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

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

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

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

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.