But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
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.
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
[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.