He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.