Labor is no disgrace.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.