Time brings all things to pass.
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
Call no man happy till he is 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.
Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.