Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
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.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
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.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
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.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
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.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
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