Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

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

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

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.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.