Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
He’s only harming himself who’s bent upon harming another.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it.
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
The fool learns by suffering.
Timeliness is best in all matters.
Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.