“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!”

—  Sophocles

Variant: Wisdom is a curse when wisdom does nothing for the man who has it.
Source: Oedipus Rex, Line 316.

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Sophocles 68
ancient Greek tragedian -496–-406 BC

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