Hesiodos citáty

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

—  Hesiodos

„Reč skúpa na slová je veľkým pokladom ľudstva.“

—  Hesiodos

Prisudzované výroky

„V nešťastí ľudia starnú rýchlejšie.“

—  Hesiodos

Prisudzované výroky

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

—  Hesiodos

Prisudzované výroky
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.“

—  Hesiodos

„I blázon stratou zmúdrie.“

—  Hesiodos

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

—  Hesiodos

„Práca nehanobí.“

—  Hesiodos

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

—  Hesiodos

„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

Originál: (el) Μηδὲ πολύξεινον μηδ᾽ ἄξεινον καλέεσθαι,
μηδὲ κακῶν ἕταρον μηδ᾽ ἐσθλῶν νεικεστῆρα.
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 715.

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

—  Hesiod, kniha Works and Days

Originál: (el) Οὐκ αἰεὶ θέρος ἐσσεῖται· ποιεῖσθε καλιάς.
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 503.

„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.“

—  Hesiod

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

—  Hesiod

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

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

—  Hesiod, kniha Works and Days

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

„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.“

—  Hesiod, kniha Works and Days

Originál: (el) Χρύσεον μὲν πρώτιστα γένος μερόπων ἀνθρώπων
ἀθάνατοι ποίησαν Ὀλύμπια δώματ᾽ ἔχοντες.
οἱ μὲν ἐπὶ Κρόνου ἦσαν, ὅτ᾽ οὐρανῷ ἐμβασίλευεν·
ὥστε θεοὶ δ᾽ ἔζωον ἀκηδέα θυμὸν ἔχοντες,
νόσφιν ἄτερ τε πόνων καὶ ὀιζύος· οὐδέ τι δειλὸν
γῆρας ἐπῆν.
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 109.

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

—  Hesiod, kniha Works and Days

Originál: (el) ζηλοῖ δέ τε γείτονα γείτων
εἰς ἄφενος σπεύδοντ᾽· ἀγαθὴ δ᾽ Ἔρις ἥδε βροτοῖσιν.
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 23.

„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 101.

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

—  Hesiod, kniha Works and Days

Originál: (el) Λιμὸς γάρ τοι πάμπαν ἀεργῷ σύμφορος ἀνδρί.
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 302.