Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.