Do not kick against the pricks.

[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.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

It is always the season for the old to learn.

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.