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“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”

― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (via pandaindisguise)

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“To know oneself is thus for Sophocles to know man’s powerlessness; but it is also to know the indestructible and conquering majesty of suffering humanity.”

― Paideia: the Ideals of Greek Culture (Volume I), Werner Jaeger