Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

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.

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.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.