Don't just think, do..

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided..

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment..

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace..

The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat.

Victory is by nature superb and insulting..

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler..

It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically..

Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew..

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience..

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it..

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more..

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful..

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food..

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief..

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes..

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects..

Don't long for the unripe grape..

It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks..

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth..

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!.