163 Quotes by Hesiod

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

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