Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.