It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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.