Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

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.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.