They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
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.
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
The potter is at enmity with the potter.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.