Quotes by Hesiod
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Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
The fool knows after he's suffered.
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.
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
It will not always be summer; build barns.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
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