Oedipus Trilogy

No matter if I saved the commonwealth.

I ne'er had come hadst thou not bidden me.

And yet this very greatness proved thy bane.

this crown the State conferred on me.
A gift, a thing I sought not

King as thou art, free speech at least is mine
To make reply; in this I am thy peer.

To twit me with my blindness—thou hast eyes,
Yet see'st not in what misery thou art fallen,
Nor where thou dwellest nor with whom for mate.

but no living man can hope
To force the gods to speak against their will

thou thyself art thine own bane.
OEDIPUS

"who seeks shall find;
Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind."

"He raised us up only to cast us down."