Hesiod Quotes
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
It will not always be summer; build barns.
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous 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.
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
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.
The fool knows after he's suffered.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
