Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.