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.

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

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus