“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)
“The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.”
— Hesiod, book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 579.
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