Hesiodos citáty

„V nešťastí ľudia starnú rýchlejšie.“

Prisudzované výroky
Varianta: Stratil som všetky nádeje, pokiaľ ide o budúcnosť našej zeme, keď dnešná mládež prevezme do svojich rúk kormidlo riadenia. Je to mládež nedisciplinovaná, drzá, neznesiteľná…

„Keď dáš k malému malé a urobíš to často, za malého sa rýchlo stane veľké.“

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„Reč skúpa na slová je veľkým pokladom ľudstva.“

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Zdroj: [LENČOVÁ, Žofia.: Perly antiky. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1997 ISBN 80-902272-7-9]

„Dobrých žien je na svete preto málo, že dobrých mužov nie je o nič viac.“

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„I blázon stratou zmúdrie.“

„Ľahkovernosť a nedôvera sú rovnako skazonosné, ako voda.“

Hesiodos citáty a výroky

„Muž nemôže stretnúť nič lepšieho ako ženu, ak je dobrá a nič horšieho, ak je zlá.“

„Práca nehanobí.“

„Ženy na seba nežiarlia len vtedy, keď na jednu pripadajú dvaja muži.“

“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”

Hesiodos: Citáty v angličtine

“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”

“First of all the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus made a golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Cronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: miserable age rested not on them.”

Zdroj: Works and Days and Theogony

“A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 109.

“Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days

“Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 715.

“Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.”

Zdroj: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 754.

“Neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 707.

“For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 23.

“Hunger is altogether a meet comrade for the sluggard.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 101.

“A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 302.

“But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is full.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 346.

“And she conceived and bore to Zeus, who delights in the thunderbolt, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 100.

“Work the work which the gods ordained for men, lest in bitter anguish of spirit you with your wife and children seek your livelihood amongst your neighbours, and they do not heed you.”

Catalogues of Women and Eoiae 3 (Loeb, H.G. Evelyn-White).
Catalogue of Women or Eoiae

“Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 397.

“Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Variant translation: At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late.
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 368 (translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White).

“The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 287.

“They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 719.

“It will not always be summer, build barns.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 116.

“The man who trusts womankind trusts deceivers.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 503.

“The deathless gods are near among men and mark all those who oppress their fellows with crooked judgements, and reck not the anger of the gods.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 375.

“Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 249.

“There's no place like home.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Variant translation: Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 240.

“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: and good again is he likewise who shall have complied with one advising him well: but whoso neither himself hath understanding, nor when he hears another, lays it to heart, he on the other hand is a worthless man.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 365.

“The generation of the man who swears truly is better thenceforward.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 293.

“He is a fool who tries to withstand the stronger, for he does not get the mastery and suffers pain besides his shame.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 285.

“Only when he has suffered does the fool learn.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 210.

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

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 218.

“For in misery men grow old quickly.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 25.

“If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.”

Hesiod kniha Works and Days

Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 93.