It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.