The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
Potter is potter’s enemy, and craftsman is craftsman’s rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It’s your barn she’s after.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
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.
Peace is a nursing mother to the land.
Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.
It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.
Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.
Best is the man who thinks for himself.
The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another’s sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.
An evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.
A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.