An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
Timeliness is best in all matters.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Labor is no disgrace.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.