For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
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.
A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.