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Quotation from The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
“But the world's Wise are not wise, Claiming more than mortal may”
The Bacchae and Other Plays, The Bacchae, trans. Gilbert Murray (1902)
The chorus warns that human cleverness becomes destructive when it overreaches divine limits.
Citation: "But the world's Wise are not wise, Claiming more than mortal may" — Euripides, The Bacchae and Other Plays, The Bacchae, trans. Gilbert Murray (1902). (id the-bacchae-and-other-plays-q1)
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
