Tag: Hesiod

Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.

Hesiod

Whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years.

Hesiod

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

Hesiod

He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things.

He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser man.

But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another’s wisdom, this is a useless man.

Hesiod