Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.