[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.