It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy.
—Hesiod
Topics: Order, Disorder
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 steer is the way to it.
—Hesiod
Topics: Excellence
The half is greater than the whole.
—Hesiod
Topics: Appreciation
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
—Hesiod
Topics: Consumerism
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
—Hesiod
Topics: Patience
It will not always be summer: build barns.
—Hesiod
Topics: Summer
The fool knows after he’s suffered.
—Hesiod
Topics: Experience
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
—Hesiod
Topics: Procrastination
If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
—Hesiod
Topics: Things, Little Things
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
—Hesiod
Topics: Brothers, One liners
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.
—Hesiod
Topics: Excellence
Fools! not to know how health and temperance bless the rustic swain, while luxury destroys her pampered train.
—Hesiod
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
—Hesiod
Topics: Neighbors
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
—Hesiod
Topics: Evil
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
—Hesiod
Topics: Marriage
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
—Hesiod
Topics: Work, Idleness, One liners
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
—Hesiod
Topics: Money
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
—Hesiod
Topics: Jealousy
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.
—Hesiod
Topics: Discipline, Future, Just for Fun, Youth
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
—Hesiod
Topics: Truth
If you only keep adding little by little, it will soon become a big heap.
—Hesiod
Topics: One Step at a Time
There is also an evil name or report, light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.
—Hesiod
The seeds of our punishment are sown at the same time we commit the sin.
—Hesiod
Topics: Punishment
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