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Antigone

Vittorio Alfieri Original title Antigone (Italian)

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“Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.”

Non nella pena,
Nel delitto è la infamia.
Antigone, I, 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 148.

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