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“Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.”

— Sophocles, Ajax, lines 485-486, tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919

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About Sophocles

497 BC – 406 BC

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

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