Hesiod

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

— Hesiod

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

— Hesiod

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

— Hesiod

From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.

— Hesiod

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

— Hesiod

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

— Hesiod

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.

— Hesiod

They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.

— Hesiod

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

— 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 steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

— 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.

— Hesiod

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

— Hesiod

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

— Hesiod

Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.

— Hesiod

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

— Hesiod

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

— Hesiod

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

— Hesiod

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

— Hesiod

And she conceived and bore to Zeus, who delights in the thunderbolt, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus.

— 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.

— Hesiod

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

— 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.

— 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.

— Hesiod

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

— Hesiod

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

— Hesiod

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

— Hesiod