I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”
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