All men have need of the gods.
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
By their own follies they perished, the fools.
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.