Money is life to us wretched mortals.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

Labor is no disgrace.

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

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

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

The half is greater than the whole.