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

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

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

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

Only fools need suffer to learn.

The fool knows after he has suffered.