If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
[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.
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.