A collection of quotes and sayings by Hesiod on days, works, theogony, generation, translation, youngster, ancient, youth, meaning, half, greater, mind, escape and love.
Hesiod was a prolific Greek poet considered by scholars to be active somewhere around the same time as Homer between 750 B.C and 650 B.C. Hesiod is accredited with establishing Greek religious customs through his writings, thoughts, poems, and works. Going by the modern scholars, Hesiod is considered as a major source on Greek mythology, early economic thought, ancient time-keeping, farming techniques and archaic Greek astronomy. Some of his other famous writings, thoughts and poems include, ‘Precepts of Chiron’, ‘Megalai Ehoiai’, ‘Kiln or Potters’, ‘Melampodia’, ‘Astronomia’ and ‘Descent of Perithous’. Following is a list of quotable quotes and sayings by Hesiod which have been curated from his writings, thoughts, opinions, works, poems and life. Go through the quotations and thoughts by Hesiod on blessing, shame, idleness, romantic, happiness, justice, path, trust, enemy, race, women, marriage, moment, life, miserable, acquisition, time, city etc and get enlightened.
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.
Hesiod
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
Hesiod
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
Hesiod
He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.
Hesiod
No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.
Hesiod
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.
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
Hesiod
It is from work that men are rich in flocks and wealthy, and a working man is much dearer to the immortals
Hesiod
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;
Hesiod
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
Hesiod
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
Hesiod
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Hesiod
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Hesiod
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
Hesiod
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Hesiod
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
Hesiod
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Hesiod
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
Hesiod
The fool knows after he's suffered.
Hesiod
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.
Hesiod
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Hesiod
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.
