Quotes from Hesiod

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

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

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.

One who delays his work is always wrestling with ruin.

And the Fates [Night] bore, and merciless punishing Furies who prosecute the transgressions of men and gods—never do the goddesses cease from their terrible wrath until they have paid the sinner his due.

Amad a quienes aman, con el fin de ser amados por ellos.

He does mischief to himself who does mischief to another, and evil planned harms the plotter most.

Fallow land is kind to children, and keeps off the hexes.

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

Observe due measure, for timing is in all things the most important factor.

The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue, and the greatest pleasure, one that moves orderly; for if you speak evil, you yourself will soon be worse spoken of.

For Justice beats Outrage when she comes at length to the end of the race.

From the Heliconian Muses, let us now begin the song Of those who hold the great and sacred hill of Helicon, And dance on tender feet around the dark spring in a row, And round about the altar of the son of Kronos go; And when in the Permessos they have bathed their soft, young skin, Or sacred stream Olmeios or the fountain Hippocrene, They make their dancing chorus on the heights of Helicon­ -- So beautiful, beguiling, as their feet glide swiftly on.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

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

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

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.

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.