Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

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

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.