It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
It is through suffering that learning comes.
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.