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Hesiod
Greek
Poet
About the author
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,
Greek
Poet
#Road
#Lies
#Excellence
#Gods
#Quantity
It will not always be summer; build barns.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Will
#Summer
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Ruin
#Gain
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Woman
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,
Greek
Poet
#People
#Land
#Strangers
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,
Greek
Poet
#Will
#Profit
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,
Greek
Poet
#Man
#Poor
#Poverty
#Confidence
#Wealth
#Shame
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Nothing
#Wife
#Man
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Right
#Measure
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Brother
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Want
#Men
#Faith
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#End
#Justice
#Race
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Old
#Cause
#Age
#Marriage
#Women
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Mind
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Enemy
#Disorder
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Light
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Man
#Disgrace
#Suffering
#Victory
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Evil
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Man
#Speech
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Death
#Giving
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Misfortune
The fool knows after he's suffered.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Fool
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,
Greek
Poet
#Time
#Right
#Wife
#Years
#Home
#Marriage
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,
Greek
Poet
#End
#Beginning
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Life
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Day
#Mother
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Calamity
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Man
#Evil
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Man
#Deeds
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,
Greek
Poet
#Poor
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Men
#Rest
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Work
#Disgrace
#Idleness
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Man
#Evil
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Shame
#Idleness
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Will
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#God
#Wealth
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Brother
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Children
#Heart
#Spirit
#Grief
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#Woman
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Hesiod,
Greek
Poet
#People
#Will
#Evil
#Justice
#Kings
#Speech