Hesiod Quotes - Page 5

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

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

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.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

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

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

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

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.

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

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.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

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

The potter is at enmity with the potter.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Labor is no disgrace.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.