Famous Hesiod Quotations

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"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."
by Hesiod
"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing."
by Hesiod
"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning."
by Hesiod
"Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster."
by Hesiod
"Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster."
by Hesiod
"Even though it's hard, it's easy."
by Hesiod
"He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner."
by Hesiod
"He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils."
by Hesiod
"If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great."
by Hesiod
"Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy."
by Hesiod
"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."
by Hesiod
"Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue."
by Hesiod
"Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor."
by Hesiod
"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man."
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"The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work."
by Hesiod
"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."
by Hesiod
"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning."
by Hesiod
"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 steer is the way to it."
by Hesiod
"Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood."
by Hesiod
"If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big."
by Hesiod
"If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great."
by Hesiod
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint."
by Hesiod
"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."
by Hesiod
"For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one."
by Hesiod
"There dwell the children of the dark Night, the dread gods Sleep and Death."
by Hesiod
"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age."
by Hesiod


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