Hesiodus Quotes Page 2

“For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.”

“He who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”

“If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first.”

“It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.”