Quotes from Hesiod

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing.

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

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

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.

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

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

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

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

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

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

Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.

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

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.

At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle be sparing.

They once taught Hesiod beauteous song, when he was shepherding his sheep below holy Helicon.

On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

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 steer is the way to it.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.