Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

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

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.