163 Quotes by Hesiod

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

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

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.