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.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

The half is greater than the whole.