Hesiod People Quotations

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

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

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.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

Bacteria: The only culture some people have.