Words matter. These are the best Hesiod Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
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.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
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.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
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.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings’ presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
It will not always be summer; build barns.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
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.
