Alas! Does any man know, does any consider—CreonWhat is this? What universal truth are you announcing?Teiresias—by how much the most precious of our possessions is the power to reason wisely?CreonBy as much, I think, as senselessness is the greatest affliction.TeiresiasYet you came into being full of that disease.CreonI have no desire to trade insults with the seer.TeiresiasYet that is what you do in saying that I prophesy falsely.