Hesiod Quotes

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
Hesiod

Funny, Woman, After

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Hesiod

Trust, Woman, Trusted

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod

Long, Put, Road

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

Jealous, Poor, Against

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Hesiod

Love, Happy, Sweet

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod

Work, Idleness, Disgrace

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Hesiod

Mother, Sometimes, Stepmother

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
Hesiod

Marriage, Age, Time

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
Hesiod

Good, Wife, Bad

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

Important, Measure, Timing

The fool knows after he's suffered.
Hesiod

Fool, After, Knows

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
Hesiod

Good, Great, Bad

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Hesiod

Evil, Another, Plan

It will not always be summer; build barns.
Hesiod

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Hesiod

Justice, Evil, Path

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Hesiod

Heart, Children, Give

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod

Marriage, Age, Women

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Hesiod

Life, Means, Miserable

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Hesiod

Small, Put, Greater

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
Hesiod

End, Beginning, Late

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
Hesiod

Give, City, Land

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Hesiod

Equal, Gain, Ruin

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 wealth.
Hesiod

Confidence, Him, Poor

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Hesiod

Faith, Men, Both

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
Hesiod

Good, Death, Bad

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Poet

Born: 800 BC

Died: 720 BC

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