Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Labor is no disgrace.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.