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

“For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.”

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

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

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

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

“Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.”