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.
If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.