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A fate, cruel and unmerited!
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Does no one have the courage? Will no one dare to face me? So you see, in my way, I was eager for what came.
Madeline Miller • CIRCE
“If it pleases the gods, so be it. They may well kill me, but they can’t hurt me.” —PLATO’S CRITO AND APOLOGY
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
It is said that when Pausanias came to him and complained of his treatment, Alexander answered him by quoting the line from the Medea of Euripides, in which she declares that she will be revenged upon “The guardian, and the bridegroom, and the bride,” alluding to Attalus, Philip, and Kleopatra.
Plutarch • Parallel Lives: Complete
“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Chastise thy passions that they avenge not themselves upon thee.
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca • Stoic Six Pack (Illustrated): Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
Aeneas and more