"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner"
"Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth"
"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy"
"A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother"
"Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage"
"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear"
"Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it"
"A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage"
"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace"
"Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers"
"Never make a companion equal to a brother"
"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age"
"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune"
"For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one"
"It will not always be summer; build barns"
"Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin"
"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"
"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"
"Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn"
"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man"
"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"
"Acquisition means life to miserable mortals"
"Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race"
"It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus"
"If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big"
"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace"
"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart"
"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet"
"Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds"
"If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much"
"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death"
"For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike"
"False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth"
"Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood"
"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"
"Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor"
