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" Wise conduct is the key to happiness.
Always rule by gods and reverence them.
Those who overbear will be brought to grief.
Fate will flail them on its winnowing floor
And in due season teach them to be wise. "

Seamus Heaney , The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone


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Seamus Heaney quote : Wise conduct is the key to happiness.<br />Always rule by gods and reverence them.<br />Those who overbear will be brought to grief.<br />Fate will flail them on its winnowing floor<br />And in due season teach them to be wise.