Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

...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.