The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his great sickening cup Recklessness and… — Sophocles
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his great sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
In the original Greek
ὕβρις φυτεύει τύραννον: ὕβρις, εἰ πολλῶν ὑπερπλησθῇ μάταν, ἃ μὴ 'πίκαιρα μηδὲ συμφέροντα, ἀκρότατον εἰσαναβᾶσ᾽ αἶπος ἀπότομον ὤρουσεν εἰς ἀνάγκαν.
Oedipus Rex · 430 BC
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Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.
Original citation
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. c. 429 BC, Theatre of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.