Hesiod
The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.Collection: Men
Men must sweat to attain virtue.Collection: Men
Timeliness is best in all matters.Collection: Inspirational
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.Collection: Eye
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.Collection: Prayer
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.Collection: Success
In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.Collection: Perseverance
Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.Collection: Procrastination
A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.Collection: Fashion
Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.Collection: Love You
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.Collection: Winning
If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.Collection: Evil
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.Collection: Sweet
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.Collection: Men
They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.Collection: Half
Money is life to us wretched mortals.Collection: Money
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.Collection: Literature
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.Collection: Blessing
In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.Collection: Men
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy manCollection: Men
Peace is a nursing mother to the land.Collection: Mother
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.Collection: Men
Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.Collection: Names
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disasterCollection: Evil
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of ZeusCollection: Wise
The Gods rank work above virtues.Collection: Work
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.Collection: Men