Thought

Aeschylus

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

But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.
Aeschylus, The Persians (472 BC) line 742 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington).

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