Only through suffering do we learn
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.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.