Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
The half is greater than the whole.
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster