
Ὕβρις γὰρ ἐξανθοῦσ᾽ ἐκάρπωσεν στάχυν
ἄτης, ὅθεν πάγκλαυτον ἐξαμᾷ θέρος.
Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly
from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.
—Aeschylus, The Persians (Πέρσαι,) lines 821–822 (472 BCE)[h/t Robert Scott Horton