Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue..

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace..

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly..

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds..

Peace is a nursing mother to the land..

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

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one..

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing..

Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast..

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of..

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner..

An evil plan does mischief to the planner..

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth..

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wea….

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods an….

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night..

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race..

Timeliness is best in all matters..

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

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger..