Quote

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

Hesiod

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hesiod
Mythographer
Poet
Rhapsode
Writer
Hesiodus
Wretched
Mortals
Money
Life

More quotes by Hesiod

Image
If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
Hesiod
Image
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
Hesiod
Image
Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.
Hesiod
Image
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Hesiod
Image
Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone and especially invite the one who lives near you.
Hesiod
Image
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
Image
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
Hesiod
Image
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod
Image
Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
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
Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
Hesiod
Image
A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.
Hesiod
Image
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Hesiod
Image
You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
Hesiod
Image
They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
Hesiod
Image
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
Hesiod
Image
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Hesiod
Image
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
Hesiod
Image
Preserve the mean the opportune moment is best in all things.
Hesiod
Image
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
Hesiod