When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Labor is no disgrace.

No day is wholly unproductive of good.

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.