Quotes
Quotes - Hesiod
We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.
Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.
From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.
Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.
Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole.
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.
They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.
Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another.
Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man's brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first.
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.
Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.
At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work.
Observe moderation. In all, the fitting season is best.
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 artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.
