...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

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.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.