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.
There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.
Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.