So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
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.
They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.