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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.
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.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
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