[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.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

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

Necessity is stronger far than art.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.