For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

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

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.