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Sophocles Quotes: Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.
         

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.


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This page presents the quote "Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.". Author of this quote is Sophocles. This quote is about wealth, power, ships, fate, deliverance, mysterious, war, dark,.