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That you cannot escape fate is a moral lesson in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban monarchs Jocasta and Laius hear the horrifying prophecy that their son will grow up to kill his father. The royal couple is in love and decide to have their three-day-old infant son Oedipus killed rather than grow up to a fate so offensive to gods and mortals. But Oedipus manages to survive. As an adult, he receives the prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. He runs away and starts a new life in Thebes. But it turns out that the man whom he kills on the way to Thebes is his father and the mother whom he marries is his mother.

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