Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.