Hesiod

“ארוס, היפה באלים בני האלמוות / מתיר האיברים, המכניע שכל ועצה נכוחה/ בלב כל האלים וכל בני האדם.”

“בהתחלה נוצר כאוס ראשון, ואזי אחר באה/ גיה רחבת החזה.”

“פסגת האולימפוס המושלג מהדהדת עם בתי האלים.”

“הן שרות לו בתואם על מה שהיה, הווה ויהיה. בלי לאות במתיקות, זורמות מילים מפיהן.”

“מאושר הוא מי שהמוזות אוהבות אותו.”

“Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.”

“Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.”

“He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another”

“But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.”

“We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.”

“How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.”

“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.”

“…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.”

“Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.”

“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.”

“Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.”

“When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.”

“The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.”

“The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.”

“Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.”