The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

Already it was clear that the lower floors were doomed. Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

These have no hope that death will overcome.
And so degraded is the life they lead
all look with envy on all other fates.

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you — it’s born with us the day that we are born.

[I]f subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable;

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

They... who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Todos los días van hacia la muerte, el último la alcanza.

You'll never find a man on Earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

It is there, in the final moments, for people whose farthest horizon has always been tomorrow, that one comprehends the profound tragedy circumscribing the life of the proletariat the world over.