Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.