“If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.”

—  Sophocles

Vit. Anon, page 64 (Plumptre's Trans.).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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ancient Greek tragedian -496–-406 BC

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