Hesiod

The fool knows after he has suffered.

— Hesiod

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

— Hesiod

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

— Hesiod

The fool knows after he's suffered.

— Hesiod

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

— Hesiod

Only fools need suffer to learn.

— Hesiod

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

— Hesiod

The half is greater than the whole.

— Hesiod

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

— Hesiod

“From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.”

— Hesiod

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

— Hesiod

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

— Hesiod

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

— Hesiod

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

— Hesiod

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

— Hesiod

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

— Hesiod

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

— Hesiod

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised…

— Hesiod

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their…

— Hesiod

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

— Hesiod

“Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.”

— Hesiod

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

— Hesiod

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

— Hesiod

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against…

— Hesiod

“It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn…

— Hesiod

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter…

— Hesiod

Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal…

— Hesiod

“Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them,…

— Hesiod

“It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other…

— Hesiod

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor…

— Hesiod

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither…

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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first;…

— Hesiod

“I mean you well, Perses, you great idiot, and I will tell you. Look, badness is easy to have, you can take…

— Hesiod

The fool learns by suffering.

— Hesiod

The Gods rank work above virtues.

— Hesiod

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

— Hesiod

The potter is at enmity with the potter.

— Hesiod

Timeliness is best in all matters.

— Hesiod

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

— Hesiod

Labor is no disgrace.

— Hesiod