Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.
If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.