When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

[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.

But let the good prevail.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.