You Shall Learn, Though Late, The Lesson

For It Would Be Better To Die Once And For All Than To Suffer Pain For All One's Life.

For Somehow This Is Tyranny's Disease, To Trust No Friends.

Obstinacy Standing Alone Is The Weakest Of All Things In One Whose Mind Is Not Possessed By Wisdom.

I, Schooled In Misery, Know Many Purifying Rites, And I Know Where Speech Is Proper And Where Silence.

Who, Except The Gods, Can Live Time Through Forever Without Any Pain?