"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
"The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach"
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Source: Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt
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