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„Keď dáš k malému malé a urobíš to často, za malého sa rýchlo stane veľké.“
Prisudzované výroky
Zdroj: [LENČOVÁ, Žofia.: Perly antiky. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1997 ISBN 80-902272-7-9]
Hesiodos citáty a výroky
Hesiodos: Citáty v angličtine
“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”
Hesiod
kniha
Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 694.
“It is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus.”
Zdroj: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 613.
“He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.”
Hesiod
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Works and Days
οἷ γ᾽ αὐτῷ κακὰ τεύχει ἀνὴρ ἄλλῳ κακὰ τεύχων
ἡ δὲ κακὴ βουλὴ τῷ βουλεύσαντι κακίστη.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe,
and evil counsel recoils on the counsellor. https://archive.org/stream/b24865898#page/432/mode/2up
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), lines 265-266
“Sometimes a day is a step mother, sometimes a mother.”
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Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 825.
“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.”
Hesiod
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Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 311.
“The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.”
Hesiod
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Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 579.
“Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.”
Hesiod
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Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 342.
“Wealth should not be seized: god-given wealth is much better.”
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Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 320.
This quote has been attributed to Hesiod on the internet, and even published with citation as a dubious attribution, but there are no known occurrences of it in his writings.
Misattributed
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Hesiod
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Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
Zdroj: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 603.
“For trust and mistrust, alike ruin men.”
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Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 372.
“The gods have placed sweat as the price of all things.”
Perhaps a mistranslation of line 289 of Works and Days, actually:
: But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat
Misattributed
“Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.”
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Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 40; often translated as "The half is greater than the whole."
“Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.”
Hesiod
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Works and Days
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 412.
“Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.”
Hesiod
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Works and Days
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
Zdroj: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 352; compare: "the gains of the wicked bring trouble", Book of Proverbs 15:6.
We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
We know how to tell many lies that pass for truth, and we know, when we wish, to tell the truth itself.
Zdroj: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), lines 27–28. Variant translations:
“On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.”
Zdroj: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 82.
