Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.

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

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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

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.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

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.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

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

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

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

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

When you deal with your brother be pleasant but get a witness.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey and speeds him too in his work.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.