Hesiod

“He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.”

“Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.”

“False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.”

“It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.”

“Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.”

“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.”

“Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.”

“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”

“Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.”

“If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.”

“It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.”

“He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.”

“Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.”

“At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.”

“Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.”

“Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.”

“Never make a companion equal to a brother.”

“A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.”

“The fool knows after he's suffered.”

“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.”