It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
[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.
Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.
Honor modesty more than your life.
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.
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