Hesiod quotes - page 3

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race. (Hesiod)
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. View quote
Hesiod
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. View quote
Hesiod
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw. View quote
Hesiod
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. View quote
Hesiod
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. View quote
Hesiod
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike. View quote
Hesiod
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. View quote
Hesiod
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it. View quote
Hesiod
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. View quote
Hesiod
He is a fool who tries to withstand the stronger, for he does not get the mastery and suffers pain besides his shame. (Hesiod)
From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love. View quote
Hesiod
Neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men. View quote
Hesiod
For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus. View quote
Hesiod
And she conceived and bore to Zeus, who delights in the thunderbolt, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus. View quote
Hesiod
Work the work which the gods ordained for men, lest in bitter anguish of spirit you with your wife and children seek your livelihood amongst your neighbours, and they do not heed you. View quote
Hesiod
They died, as if o'ercome by sleep. View quote
Hesiod
Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity. View quote
Hesiod
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words. View quote
Hesiod
The fool knows after he's suffered. View quote
Hesiod
Whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years. (Hesiod)
There the sons of obscure Night hold their habitation, Sleep and Death, dread gods. View quote
Hesiod
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the greater the lading, the greater will be your piled gain, if only the winds will keep back their harmful gales. View quote
Hesiod
The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue. View quote
Hesiod
Bacteria: The only culture some people have. View quote
Hesiod

Hesiod

Hesiod - Image
Occupation: Greek Poet
Born: 776 BC
Quotes count: 105
Wikipedia: Hesiod

Related authors

Homer - thumbnail
Homer  345 
Greek Author
Plato - thumbnail
Plato  332 
Greek Philosopher
Aeschylus - thumbnail
Aeschylus  233 
Greek Poet
Pindar - thumbnail
Pindar  31 
Greek Poet
Herodotus - thumbnail
Herodotus  80 
Greek Historian
Ovid  263 
Roman Poet
Heraclitus - thumbnail
Heraclitus  82 
Greek Philosopher
Euripides - thumbnail
Euripides  205 
Greek Poet
Virgil - thumbnail
Virgil  221 
Roman Poet
Aristophanes - thumbnail
Aristophanes  88 
Greek Poet