For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

No bad man can be a good poet.

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

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.