All Hesiod Quotes
- So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. Devising
- We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. Falsehood
- Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. Mate
- The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work. Dawn
- They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole. Exceeds
- Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things. All
- Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses. Dishonest
- An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves. Among
- Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer. Competition
- Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after. Any
- Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy. Dinner
- When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness. Brother
- Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong. Brother
- Labor is no disgrace. Disgrace
- Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses. Base
- No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity. Away Entirely
- The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. Artist
- Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. Disgrace
- Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. Idleness
- No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. Inspirational
- False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with… Accompanies
- Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good… Action
- Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. Cities
- And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. Evil
- The Gods rank work above virtues. Gods