I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity. — 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
