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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

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.

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.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

The fool learns by suffering.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

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.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

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

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.