Hesiod quotes - page 4

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again. (Hesiod)
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. View quote
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Best is the man who thinks for himself. View quote
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Only fools need suffer to learn. View quote
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Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. View quote
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Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses. View quote
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Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap. View quote
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Money is life to us wretched mortals. View quote
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The fool learns by suffering. View quote
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An evil plan does mischief to the planner. View quote
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Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue. (Hesiod)
The deathless gods are near among men and mark all those who oppress their fellows with crooked judgements, and reck not the anger of the gods. View quote
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There's no place like home. View quote
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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: and good again is he likewise who shall have complied with one advising him well: but whoso neither himself hath understanding, nor when he hears another, lays it to heart, he on the other hand is a worthless man. View quote
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The generation of the man who swears truly is better thenceforward. View quote
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Only when he has suffered does the fool learn. View quote
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Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard. View quote
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For in misery men grow old quickly. View quote
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It is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus. View quote
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First of all the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus made a golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Cronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: miserable age rested not on them. View quote
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Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men. (Hesiod)
Hunger is altogether a meet comrade for the sluggard. View quote
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But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is full. View quote
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The man who trusts womankind trusts deceivers. View quote
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[Thus] the people pay for the mad folly of their princes who, evilly minded, pervert judgement and give sentence crookedly. View quote
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