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“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”

— Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, lines 1230-1231, tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1949
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About Sophocles

497 BC – 406 BC

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

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