5 Hesiod Quotes on Ethics

Hesiod quotes on ethics

3. There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

6. Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

7. He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

10. Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

15. Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.