James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. Hesiod
[Greek]—Be sure you take for wife a woman of your own neighbourhood. 1 [Greek]—Do not make evil gains; evil gains are equal to losses. 2 [Greek]—Fools, they don’t even know how much half is more than the whole. From Pittacus. 3 [Greek]—Labour is no disgrace. 4 [Greek]—The gods have placed sweat in front of virtue. 5 [Greek]—The half (i.e., well used) is more than the whole (i.e., abused). 6 Diligence increases the fruits of labour. 7 Non semper erit æstas—It will not always be summer. 8 Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet. 9 The ridge once gained, the path so hard of late / Runs easy on, and level with the gate (to virtue). 10 Where virtue dwells, the gods have placed before / The dropping sweat that springs from every pore, / And ere the feet can reach her bright abode, / Long, rugged, steep the ascent, and rough the road. 11
