The laws of a state change with the changing times.

[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 anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

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.

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

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.