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 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