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 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