They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

[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.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.