Quotes from Hesiod

The fool knows after he's suffered.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

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

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

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.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

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

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

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.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Timeliness is best in all matters.

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.