Peace is a nursing mother to the land.
Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.