The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

Only fools need suffer to learn.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.