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“Whosoever knows how to render benefit for benefit must prove a friend above price.”

— Sophocles, Philoctetes, lines 672-673, tr. R. C. Jebb, 1890

About Sophocles

497 BC – 406 BC

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

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