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Antigone, l. 1165ff [Messenger] (441 BC) [tr. Watling (1947), Epilogos, l. 977ff] - Sophocles | WIST Quotations
For life without life’s joys Is living death; and such a life is his. Riches and rank and show of majesty And state, where no joy is, are empty, vain And unsubstantial shadows, of no weight To be compared with happiness of heart. [τὰς γὰρ ἡδονὰς ὅταν προδῶσιν ἄνδρες, οὐ…