Hesiod Quotes

μὴ κακὰ κερδαίνειν: κακὰ κέρδεα ἶσ᾽ ἀάτῃσιν

The gods have placed sweat as the price of all things.

Οὐ μὲν γάρ τι γυναικὸς ἀνὴρ ληίζετ᾽ ἄμεινον
τῆς ἀγαθῆς, τῆς δ᾽ αὖτε κακῆς οὐ ῥίγιον ἄλλο.

Μηδὲ πολύξεινον μηδ᾽ ἄξεινον καλέεσθαι,
μηδὲ κακῶν ἕταρον μηδ᾽ ἐσθλῶν νεικεστῆρα.

Γλώσσης τοι θησαυρὸς ἐν ἀνθρώποισιν ἄριστος
φειδωλῆς.

There's no place like home.

Sometimes a day is a step mother, sometimes a mother.

On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.

The generation of the man who swears truly is better thenceforward.

Αἶψα γὰρ ἐν κακότητι βροτοὶ καταγηράσκουσιν.

From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

Πίστεις ἄρ τοι ὁμῶς καὶ ἀπιστίαι ὤλεσαν ἄνδρας.

They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.

First of all the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus made a golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Cronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: miserable age rested not on them.