 It will not always be summer; build barns. |
| He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner. |
| 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. |
| Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things. |
| 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. |
| Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better. |
| It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. |
| Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin. |
| A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. |
| Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race. |
| Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. |
| Never make a companion equal to a brother. |
| 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. |
| Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. |
| The fool knows after he's suffered. |
| How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear. |
| It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus. |
| Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. |
| Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. |
| For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. |
