Hesiod Quotes

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.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

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.

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.