Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.
Only fools need suffer to learn.
You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.
Even though it’s hard, it’s easy.
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.
Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.
There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.
The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.
The potter is at enmity with the potter.
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
Man’s chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
Bacteria: The only culture some people have.
The half is greater than the whole.
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus.
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.