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

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.