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Labor is no disgrace.
The fool learns by suffering.
Only fools need suffer to learn.
Men must sweat to attain virtue.
Even though it's hard, it's easy.
The Gods rank work above virtues.
Timeliness is best in all matters.
The half is greater than the whole.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
The fool knows after he's suffered.
The fool knows after he has suffered.
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
Peace is a nursing mother to the land.
No day is wholly unproductive of good.
Best is the man who thinks for himself.
The potter is at enmity with the potter.
You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
It will not always be summer: build barns.
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
It will not always be summer; build barns.
Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.
An evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Bacteria: The only culture some people have.
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
The ill design is most ill for the designer.
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.