Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man..

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late..

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses..

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

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer..

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….

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear..

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things..

...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this l….

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

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end..

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

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to th….

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong..

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity..

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….

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace..

Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, ….

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged..

You trust a thief when you trust a woman..

Only fools need suffer to learn..