Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.