James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
Hesiod
[Greek]—Be sure you take for wife a woman of your own neighbourhood.
[Greek]—Do not make evil gains; evil gains are equal to losses.
[Greek]—Fools, they don’t even know how much half is more than the whole.From Pittacus.
[Greek]—Labour is no disgrace.
[Greek]—The gods have placed sweat in front of virtue.
[Greek]—The half (i.e., well used) is more than the whole (i.e., abused).
Diligence increases the fruits of labour.
Non semper erit æstas—It will not always be summer.
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.
The ridge once gained, the path so hard of late / Runs easy on, and level with the gate (to virtue).
Where virtue dwells, the gods have placed before / The dropping sweat that springs from every pore, / And ere the feet can reach her bright abode, / Long, rugged, steep the ascent, and rough the road.