It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.
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.