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Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

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.

Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.

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

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

The fool knows after he's suffered.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

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

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

The Gods rank work above virtues.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

Labor is no disgrace.

The fool learns by suffering.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

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

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

The half is greater than the whole.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

The potter is at enmity with the potter.

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

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

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

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

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

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

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

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

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

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

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

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

It is from work that men are rich in flocks and wealthy, and a working man is much dearer to the immortals

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men,
conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

No day is wholly unproductive of good.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.

If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first.

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

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

Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

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

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

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

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

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

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

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

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

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

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.

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

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

It will not always be summer; build barns.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

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

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

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

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

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

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

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

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.

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

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

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

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

Timeliness is best in all matters.

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

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.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

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

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

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

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

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

Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

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

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

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

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

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.