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"Women of Trachis" Quotes
"Women of Trachis" is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles that explores the consequences of love, jealousy, and fate through the story of Deianira, the wife of Heracles.
Quotes
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune’s wayward tyranny.
fortunesuffering
A man among men, I regarded myself as fortunate.
fortunepride
No man has a mind free from folly.
follywisdom
The gods are slow but sure in their punishments.
divine justicepunishment
There is no place without a voice of woe.
sufferingwoe
Death is not the greatest evil; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
deathdespair
Life is full of change and change is fate.
lifechangefate
I have learned to suffer, and not to complain.
sufferingresilience
You may hide a wound, but never a will.
secretswillpower
The truth is not in the stones, but in the soul.
truthsoul




