The fool knows after he has suffered.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
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.