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.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

The fool learns by suffering.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

The half is greater than the whole.