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“ ”It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.
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
It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.
The stubbornest of wills
Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron,
O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,
Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
I was born to share love, not hate”, said Antigone. “Go then, and share your love for the dead”, responds Creon.