In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.