Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

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.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.