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“One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Pittacus. iv.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bc5f072714f7a6f3223907cfcae76ec30104cb61c746ced052a43a5e8f6963cd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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