Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first;… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by.… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty;… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not,… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses,… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
