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A day is either a mother or a stepmother. The fool knows after he has suffered. Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. It will not always be summer; build barns.
A man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. Work is no disgrace; it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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