Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Hesiod
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Hesiod
Mythographer
Poet
Rhapsode
Writer
Hesiodus
Transgression
Justice
Literature
Race
Comes
Ends
Prevails
More quotes by Hesiod
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.
Hesiod
The fool knows after he has suffered.
Hesiod
Do not gain basely base gain is equal to ruin.
Hesiod
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.
Hesiod
Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
Hesiod
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.
Hesiod
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.
Hesiod
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
Hesiod
A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
Hesiod
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
Hesiod
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Hesiod
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod
The potter is at enmity with the potter.
Hesiod
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
Hesiod
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
Hesiod
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Hesiod
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
Hesiod
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
Hesiod
They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
Hesiod
Bacteria: The only culture some people have.
Hesiod