Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters,and prayed to them,and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.
The Gods rank work above virtues.
From the Heliconian Muses, let us now begin the songOf those who hold the great and sacred hill of Helicon,And dance on tender feet around the dark spring in a row,And round about the altar of the son...
He does mischief to himself who does mischief to another, and evil planned harms the plotter most.
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
Better marry a maiden, so you can teach her good manners, and in particular marry one who lives close by you. Look her well over first. Don't marry what will make your neighbors laugh at you, for whil...
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
I mean you well, Perses, you great idiot, and I will tell you. Look, badness is easy to have, you can take it by handfuls without effort. The road that way is smooth and starts here beside you. But be...
It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.
For here now is the age of iron. Never by daytime will there be an end to hard work and pain, nor in the night to weariness, when the gods will send anxieties to trouble us.