A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.