Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

The half is greater than the whole.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.