The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

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.

The wisest of the wise may err.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.