One must wait until the evening to know how splendid the day has been.Sophocles
“I am taught by suffering to endure, and the long years that have grown old with me, and last not least, by true nobility.”
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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