Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
But let the good prevail.