Hesiod Quotes
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
The fool knows after he's suffered.
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.
- Works and Days.
If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
The half is greater than the whole.
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is mostharmful to the planner.
No day is wholly unproductive of good.
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
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, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.