They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

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.

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

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