Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.Sophocles
“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”
“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”
— SOPHOCLES
Playwright · 497 BC – 406 BC
Sophocles was an Athenian tragedian who wrote more than 120 plays, of which seven survive complete. Oedipus Rex and Antigone, his most famous works, set the pattern for Western tragedy.
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