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Hesiod Quotes
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: Greek Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 800 BC Year of Death: 720 BC Nationality: Greek Find on Amazon: Hesiod Related Authors: Sophocles Horace Aeschylus Euripides Homer Aristophanes Menander |
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
Hesiod A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. Hesiod A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. Hesiod Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. 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 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 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 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 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 Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn. 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 For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. Hesiod For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike. Hesiod Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. Hesiod Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. Hesiod He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner. Hesiod He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. Hesiod How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear. Hesiod If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great. Hesiod If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much. Hesiod If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big. Hesiod It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. Hesiod It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus. Hesiod It will not always be summer; build barns. Hesiod Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race. Hesiod Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. Hesiod Never make a companion equal to a brother. Hesiod Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. Hesiod Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. Hesiod Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. 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 Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things. 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 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 The fool knows after he's suffered. Hesiod The fool learns by suffering. 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 Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. Hesiod 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 Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better. Hesiod When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness. Hesiod Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. Hesiod Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers. Hesiod Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. Hesiod Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. Hesiod |
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