Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: '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.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: '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.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Apollonius of Tyana: 'I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Apollonius of Tyana: 'It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.' Read More Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Apollonius of Tyana: 'Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: 'How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/10/23 Hesiod: '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.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: '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.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Hesiod: 'Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Apollonius of Tyana: 'I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Apollonius of Tyana: 'It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Quote Interpretation 11 11/9/23 Apollonius of Tyana: 'Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.' Read More