To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
The reward of pain is experience.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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.