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Hesiod [-800--720] Greek

Rank: 101
Poet

Hesiod was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

Marriage, Age, Funny, Money, Romantic, Trust, Women, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.		101
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.	Work	102
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.		103
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.		104
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.	Age, Marriage, Women	105
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.	Trust	106
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.		107
It will not always be summer; build barns.		108
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.	Funny	109
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.	Romantic	110
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.		111
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.		112
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.		113
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.		114
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.		115
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.		116
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.		117
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.	Money	118
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.		119
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.		120
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.		121
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.		122
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.		123
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.	Marriage	124
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.		125
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.		126
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.		201
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.		202
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.		203
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.		204
Never make a companion equal to a brother.		205
The fool knows after he's suffered.		206
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.		207
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.		208
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.		209
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.		210
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.		211
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.		212
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.		213
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.		214
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.		215
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.		216
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.		217
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.		218

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