If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.