So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

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

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

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.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.