Hesiod
Hesiod
Hesiodwas a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought,...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
men enemy he-man
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
brother fixed witness
Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
saving too-late literature
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.
men advice sound
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.
thinking men he-man
Best is the man who thinks for himself.
light literature bears
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
evil doe mischief
An evil plan does mischief to the planner.
light evil nicknames
There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.
worst-enemy disorder humans
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
design zeus hard
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
home years wife
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.
work men hunger
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
wise men night
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
life mean acquisition
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.