Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.
Aeschylus, The Persians (472 BC) lines 821 – 822 (tr. Christopher Collard).
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Ὕβρις γὰρ ἐξανθοῦσ᾽ ἐκάρπωσεν στάχυν
ἄτης, ὅθεν πάγκλαυτον ἐξαμᾷ θέρος.
