 Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. |
| Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. |
| Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. |
| Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. |
| When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness. |
| Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. |
| So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. |
| We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. |
| 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. |
| For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike. |
| He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. |
| A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. |
| Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. |
| The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it. |
| If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big. |
| If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much. |
| Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. |
| Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers. |
| 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. |
| Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. |
