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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
"The high strength of men knows no content with limitation."— Aeschylus
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Meaning of this quote
The chorus warns that human strength and prosperity tend to reach beyond limits.
Key takeaway:
Consider where ambition needs a practical boundary.
Origin of the quote
Agamemnon, choral passage around lines 1004–1012, Richmond Lattimore translation.
Who actually said this?
Commonly attributedA scholarly source identifies the passage and translator, but the complete original edition was not independently checked. The post excerpts its opening assertion.
