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That they must try to be happy even though they will have a difficult time without a guardian is what Oedipus says to his children in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, disgraced Theban King Oedipus cautions that his daughters, the young sister Princesses Antigone and Ismene, most likely will be abused and shunned. He fears that they will find no husbands and have no children. He thinks that loneliness, poverty and suffering will be their lot unless they have a guardian such as their uncle King Creon.

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