Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

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.