“But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 742 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)
“A man is a god in ruins.”
Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 8, Prospects
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“I no longer require
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Context: Millennia have passed
since you first called me archaeology.
I no longer require
your stone gods, your ruins with legible inscriptions.
Show me your whatever
and I'll tell you who you were.