We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. — Hesiod Falsehood Copy Share Image
The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there… — Hesiod Built Copy Share Image
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised… — Hesiod Advice Copy Share Image
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves. — Hesiod Death Copy Share Image
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty,… — Hesiod Poor Copy Share Image
There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get… — Hesiod Difficult Copy Share Image
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. — Hesiod Inspirational Copy Share Image
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much. — Hesiod Again Copy Share Image
Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole. — Hesiod Fool Copy Share Image
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear. — Hesiod About Copy Share Image
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. — Hesiod Bad Copy Share Image
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. — Hesiod Deprived Copy Share Image
No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity. — Hesiod Divinity Copy Share Image
