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Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.
Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
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.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
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.
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.
In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.
Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.