Hesiod Quotes
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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod
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Author Details:
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
Greek Poet Quotes
Year of Birth:
800 BC
Year of Death:
720 BC
Nationality:
Greek
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Related Authors:
Euripides
Aeschylus
Homer
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Agathon
Pindar
Menander
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Select Hesiod Quotations:
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
Hesiod
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
Hesiod
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
Hesiod
It will not always be summer; build barns.
Hesiod
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Hesiod
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Hesiod
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
Hesiod
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Quote Keywords:

Age,
Cause,
Comes,
Deadly,
Does,
Fleeing,
Marriage,
Old,
Sorrows,
Wed,
Whoever,
Wish,
Women
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Dictionary Links:

Age,
Cause,
Comes,
Deadly,
Does,
Fleeing,
Marriage,
Old,
Wed,
Whoever,
Wish,
Women
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A day is sometimes our mother...
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Admire a small ship, but put...
At the beginning of the cask...
Badness you can get easily, in...
Bring a wife home to your...
But they who give straight judgements...
Do not gain basely; base gain...
Do not let a flattering woman...
False shame accompanies a man that...
For a man wins nothing better...
For both faith and want of...
Giving is good, but taking is...
Happy is the man whom the...
He fashions evil for himself who...
He is senseless who would match...
How easily some light report is...
If you add a little to...
If you should put even a...
It is best to do things...
It is not possible either to...
It will not always be summer...
Justice prevails over transgression when she...
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Never make a companion equal to...
Observe due measure, for right timing...
Often an entire city has suffered...
Often even a whole city suffers...
Potter is jealous of potter, and...
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment...
So the people will pay the...
The best is he who calls...
The fool knows after he's suffered.
The man who does evil to...
Toil is no source of shame...
Try to take for a mate...
We know how to speak many...
Wealth should not be seized, but...
When you deal with your brother...
Whoever happens to give birth to...
Whoever has trusted a woman has...
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows...
Work is no disgrace: it is...
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