Quotes from Hesiod

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

The half is greater than the whole.

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

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

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

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

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.

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

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

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

Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

So you, the kings, you too must reflect upon this punishment, because the immortals are here in the midst of manking, observing those who do not hold the gods in awe...but grind each other down with crooked judgements

He is happy whom the Muses love. For though a man has sorrow and grief in his soul, yet when the servant of the Muses sings, at once he forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles. Such is the holy gift of the Muses to men.

For here now is the age of iron. Never by daytime will there be an end to hard work and pain, nor in the night to weariness, when the gods will send anxieties to trouble us.

Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil

I mean you well, Perses, you great idiot, and I will tell you. Look, badness is easy to have, you can take it by handfuls without effort. The road that way is smooth and starts here beside you. But between us and virtue the immortals have put what will make us sweat. The road to virtue is long and goes steep up hill, hard climbing at first, but the last of it, when you get to the summit (if you get there) is easy going after the hard part.

Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them, and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water

Plan harm for another and harm yourself most, The evil we hatch always comes home to roost.

And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or been born afterward. For here now is the age of iron.

If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first.