Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.