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

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

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

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.