Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.