Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

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