Quotes from Hesiod

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

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

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

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

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

The Gods rank work above virtues.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

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.

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

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

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.

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

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.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.