Only fools need suffer to learn.
Best is the man who thinks for himself.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.