Hesiod
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Home
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.Collection: Marriage
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.Collection: Trust
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.Collection: Funny
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.Collection: Romantic
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.Collection: Wise
Bacteria: The only culture some people have.Collection: People
A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.Collection: Men
If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.Collection: Add
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.Collection: Important
Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.Collection: Ships
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.Collection: Inspirational
Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.Collection: Evil
Best is the man who thinks for himself.Collection: Men
Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.Collection: Sports
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.Collection: Struggle
You trust a thief when you trust a woman.Collection: Thieves
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.Collection: Worst Enemy
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.Collection: Family
It will not always be summer: build barns.Collection: Summer
Only fools need suffer to learn.Collection: Suffering
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.Collection: Disgrace
Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.Collection: Littles
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.Collection: Writing
The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.Collection: Struggle
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.Collection: Mean
It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.Collection: Men
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.Collection: Evil
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.Collection: Mother
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.Collection: Trying
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.Collection: Night
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.Collection: Wise
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.Collection: Truth
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.Collection: Literature
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.Collection: Saving
The ill design is most ill for the designer.Collection: Design
There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.Collection: Light
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.Collection: Men
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.Collection: Mean
The potter is at enmity with the potter.Collection: Business
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.Collection: Men
Labor is no disgrace.Collection: Disgrace
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.Collection: Men
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.Collection: Design
Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.Collection: Order
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised itCollection: Men
The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.Collection: Men
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.Collection: Men