Creon: First weigh this—whether you think that anyone
Would choose to rule amid terrors rather than in unruffled
Peace, granting that he is to have the same powers.
Now I, for one, have no yearning in my nature to be a
King rather than to do kingly deeds, no, nor has any man
Who knows how to keep a sober mind. Now I win all
Boons from you without fear; but if I were ruler myself
I should be doing much even against my own desire.
How then could royalty be sweeter for me to have than
Painless rule and influence?
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