163 Quotes by Hesiod

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

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

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

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

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

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

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.