“I was not born to join in hatred, but in love.”

— Sophocles · Love quote

I was not born to join in hatred, but in love. — Sophocles quote card
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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