In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

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.

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.