It will not always be summer: build barns.
The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.