Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

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

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

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

No day is wholly unproductive of good.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.