Hesiod Quotes about Literature

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

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

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

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

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

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

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

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

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.

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.