Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.
He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.
In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.
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.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.