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

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

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

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

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

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.

Only fools need suffer to learn.