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.

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.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

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

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.