Hesiod Quotations

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

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

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

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

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

Labor is no disgrace.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.