Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
Necessity is stronger far than art.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
[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.