"Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn." — Hesiod

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.