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.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.