Top 100 Quotes About Hesiod: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Hesiod

#1. Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

#2. For talk is evil: It is light to raise up quite easily, but it is difficult to bear, and hard to put down. No talk is ever entirely gotten rid of, once many people talk it up: It too is some god." - HESIOD

Stacy Schiff

#3. I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness

Frank O'Hara

#4. Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

Heraclitus

#5. There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

Tariq Ali

#6. Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity." Hesiod, Works and Days

Carole B. Shmurak

#7. Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#8. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.

Hesiod

#9. A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

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#10. Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

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#14. Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

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#15. Men must sweat to attain virtue.

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#16. Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

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

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#18. If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

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#19. It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

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#20. In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

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#21. The fool knows after he has suffered.

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#22. He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

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#23. The half is greater than the whole.

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

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#25. Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

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#26. Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

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#27. Never make a companion equal to a brother.

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#28. Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

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#29. Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows;

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#30. Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

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#31. Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

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#32. He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

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#33. The ill design is most ill for the designer.

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#34. For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

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#35. That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

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#36. Never wade through the pretty ripples
of perpetually flowing
rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters,
and prayed to them,
and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.

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

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#38. Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

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

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#40. For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

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#41. Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

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#42. Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

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

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

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#45. Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

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#46. But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

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#47. Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

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

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#49. 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.

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#50. In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

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#51. If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

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#52. Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.

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#53. Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

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#54. So you, the kings, you too must reflect upon this punishment, because the immortals are here in the midst of manking, observing those who do not hold the gods in awe ... but grind each other down with crooked judgements

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#55. 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.

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#56. Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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#57. Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

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

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#59. I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

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#60. Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men,
conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

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

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#62. Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

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#63. And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

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#64. Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

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#65. If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first.

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#66. From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

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#67. 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.

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#68. The fool knows after he's suffered.

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#69. Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

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

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#71. When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

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#72. Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

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#73. Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

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#74. Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

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#75. Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

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#76. Labor is no disgrace.

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

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#78. Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

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#79. This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

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#80. And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

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#81. The fool learns by suffering.

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#82. Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

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#83. No day is wholly unproductive of good.

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#84. The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

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

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#86. In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

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

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#88. Money is life to us wretched mortals.

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#89. A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

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#90. Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

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#91. Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

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#92. A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

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

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#94. Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

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#95. 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.

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