Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. Hesiod Read Quote
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. Hesiod Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. Hesiod Read Quote
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper. Hesiod Read Quote
