“But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.”

— Aeschylus , The Persians

Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 742 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)

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Ἀλλ᾽, ὅταν σπεύδῃ τις αὐτός, χὠ θεὸς συνάπτεται.

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ancient Athenian playwright -525–-456 BC

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“But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.”