Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.