A day is either a mother or a stepmother.
The fool knows after he has suffered.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
It will not always be summer; build barns.
A man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
Work is no disgrace; it is idleness which is a disgrace.