Hesiod Quotes

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

No day is wholly unproductive of good.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

The potter is at enmity with the potter.

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Labor is no disgrace.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them, and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.

No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.

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