But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
[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.