Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

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

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

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.