We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Men must sweat to attain virtue.
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.
The half is greater than the whole.
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.