Quote

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

Hesiod

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hesiod
Mythographer
Poet
Rhapsode
Writer
Hesiodus
Fate
Among
Maritime
Terrible
Naval
Dies
Wretched
Means
Waves
Mean
Mortals
Life
Wave
Income

More quotes by Hesiod

Image
Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
Hesiod
Image
He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
Hesiod
Image
Only fools need suffer to learn.
Hesiod
Image
Preserve the mean the opportune moment is best in all things.
Hesiod
Image
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Hesiod
Image
The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
Hesiod
Image
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
Hesiod
Image
Timeliness is best in all matters.
Hesiod
Image
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
Hesiod
Image
Do not gain basely base gain is equal to ruin.
Hesiod
Image
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.
Hesiod
Image
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.
Hesiod
Image
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 Zeus
Hesiod
Image
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
Hesiod
Image
The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.
Hesiod
Image
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
Hesiod
Image
The half is greater than the whole.
Hesiod
Image
This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
Hesiod
Image
He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.
Hesiod
Image
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
Hesiod