Simple is the speech of truth.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

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.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Simple is the speech of truth.