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

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.

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

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.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

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

It will not always be summer; build barns.

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

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

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

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

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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.

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

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