He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.