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“Men must needs bear the fortunes given by the gods.”

— Sophocles, Philoctetes, lines 1316-1317, tr. R. C. Jebb, 1890
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About Sophocles

497 BC – 406 BC

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

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