Wrong must not win by technicalities.
Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
[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.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.