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.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.