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

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again..

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 make….

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer..

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 usel….

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you..

Bacteria: The only culture some people have..

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin..

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils..

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike..

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it..

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame..

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech..

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes..

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 n….

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right..

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it..

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy..

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reach….

The ill design is most ill for the designer..

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work..