Hesiodus Quotes

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

“A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.”

“A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it.”

“Better marry a maiden, so you can teach her good manners, and in particular marry one who lives close by you. Look her well over first. Don't marry what will make your neighbors laugh at you, for while there's nothing better a man can win him than a good wife, there's nothing more dismal than a bad one.”

“Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.”

“Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.”

“Do not put your work off till tomorrow 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.”

“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.”