[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.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

He hears but half who hears one party only.