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

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

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.