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Hésiode est un poète grec du VIIIe siècle av. J.-C.

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“Pour commencer, chantons les Muses Héliconiennes, reines de l'Hélicon, la grande et divine montagne.”

Μουσάων Ἑλικωνιάδων ἀρχώμεθ’ ἀείδειν,
La Théogonie

“Qui se fie à une femme se fie aux voleurs.”

ὃς δὲ γυναικὶ πέποιθε, πέποιθ’ ὅ γε φιλήτῃσιν.
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Les Travaux et les Jours

“Ne remettez rien au lendemain ni au surlendemain.”

μηδ’ ἀναβάλλεσθαι ἔς τ’ αὔριον ἔς τε ἔνηφι.
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Les Travaux et les Jours

“Gain mal acquis vaut un désastre.”

κακὰ κέρδεα ἶσ’ ἄτῃσι.
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Les Travaux et les Jours

“Nous savons conter des mensonges tout pareils aux vérités; mais nous savons aussi, lorsque nous le voulons, proclamer des vérités.”

ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα,
La Théogonie

“Le potier en veut au potier, l'aède à l'aède et le mendiant au mendiant.”

Citations raportées, Lysis

“De la misère, on en gagne tant qu'on veut, et sans peine : la route est plane, et elle loge tout près de nous.”

τὴν μέν τοι κακότητα καὶ ἰλαδὸν ἔστιν ἑλέσθαι
Les Travaux et les Jours

Hésiode: Citations en anglais

“Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 715.

“Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.”

Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 754.

“Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 707.

“Neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 23.

“Hunger is altogether a meet comrade for the sluggard.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 302.

“A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 346.

“But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is full.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 100.

“Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Variant translation: At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 368 (translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White).

“The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 719.

“They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 116.

“It will not always be summer, build barns.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 503.

“The man who trusts womankind trusts deceivers.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 375.

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

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Variant translation: Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 240.

“There's no place like home.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 365.

“The generation of the man who swears truly is better thenceforward.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 285.

“He is a fool who tries to withstand the stronger, for he does not get the mastery and suffers pain besides his shame.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 210.

“Only when he has suffered does the fool learn.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 218.

“Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 25.

“For in misery men grow old quickly.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 93.

“If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.”

Hesiod livre Les Travaux et les Jours

Variant translation: If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 361.

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