Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
The wisest men follow their own direction.