If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.
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.
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.