Sophocles (c. 496-406/405 BCE)
“Acceptance—that is the great lesson suffering teaches.”
- From Sophocles’ play, Oedipus at Colonus (approximately line 6), translated by Robert Fagles in Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics, 1982, 1984, 2018).
