Quotes by Hesiod

“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”

“Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged b...”

“He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another”

“Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters,and prayed to them,and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.”

“Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.”

“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.”

“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.”

“Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.”

“Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.”

“Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.”

“No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.”

“If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.”

“The voice of the people is the voice of God.”

“The Gods rank work above virtues.”

“…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged ...”

“No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.”

“If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.”

“He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things. He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person). But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this ...”

“We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.”

“On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.”