Reason is God's crowning gift to man. — Sophocles
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
In the original Greek
θεοὶ φύουσιν ἀνθρώποις φρένας, πάντων ὅσ᾽ ἐστὶ κτημάτων ὑπέρτατον.
Antigone · 442 BC
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Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.
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Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.
