Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

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.

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.

No day is wholly unproductive of good.