Hesiod Quotes
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.
Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.
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.
Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
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.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.
Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.
Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.
The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.
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.
Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.
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.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
