The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

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.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

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

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.