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“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”

— Sophocles, Antigone, lines 563-564, tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1938

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About Sophocles

497 BC – 406 BC

Greek tragedian, author of "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone".

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