The half is greater than the whole.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

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

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.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.