Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Hesiod

Hesiod (c. 8th century BCE)

“A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another,
and the ill design is most ill for the designer.”

  • From Hesiod’s Works and Days (approximately line 266), translated by M. L. West (Oxford World Classics, 1988, 1999, 2008).

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