All Hesiod Quotes
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Hesiod
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Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Hesiod
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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
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He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Hesiod
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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.
Hesiod
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If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
Hesiod
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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
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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
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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
Hesiod
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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.
Hesiod
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How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
Hesiod
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