163 Quotes by Hesiod

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

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

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

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