The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

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

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

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

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.