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“ ”The happiest life is to be without thought
About Sophocles
Sophocles (Greek: Σοφοκλῆς; 496 – 406 BCE) was a Greek playwright, dramatist, priest, and politician of Classical Athens. He was also a general for the Athenian Empire in the Peloponnesian Wars, and during his service he led the battle against the Peloponnesian Island of Samos.[citation needed]
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Additional quotes by Sophocles
My nails are broken, my fingers are bleeding, my arms are covered with the welts left by the paws of your guards — but I am a queen!
You chose to live, I chose to die.
Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?