Time cleanses what it touches over time.
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.