163 Quotes by Hesiod

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

Man’s chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

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.

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard’s successful strains.

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.

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

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.

It is from work that men are rich in flocks and wealthy, and a working man is much dearer to the immortals.

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.