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“Wisdom is a curse when wisdom does nothing for the man who has it.”

— Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, lines 316-317, tr. Stephen Berg and Diskin Clay, 1978

About Sophocles

497 BC – 406 BC

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

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