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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. — Sophocles

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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

In the original Greek

οὐδ᾽ ὃς ἂν βλάστῃ μένει νοῦς τοῖς κακῶς πράσσουσιν.

Sophocles
Antigone · 442 BC
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Topic
Effects of griefGrief
Genre
Greek tragedyTragedy (play)
Medium
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Time
442 BCClassical antiquity
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Sophocles
Provenance
Current citation
Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.
Original citation
Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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