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.

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

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.