Quotes by Hesiod

"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 on excellence   

"The fool knows after he's suffered."

Hesiod on experience   

"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 on jealousy   

"The half is greater than the whole."

Hesiod on appreciation   

"Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood."

Hesiod on marriage   

"Acquisition means life to miserable mortals."

Hesiod on materialism   

"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing."

Hesiod on neighbors   

"If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big."

Hesiod on patience   

"If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great."

Hesiod on things and little things   

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

Hesiod on truth