ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.
Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
Necessity is stronger far than art.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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.