Best Hybris Poems

Aesop, Fables 533 (from Babrius 70) (trans. Gibbs) (Greek fable C6th B.C.) :
"The gods were getting married. One after another, they all got hitched, until finally it
was time for Polemos (War) to draw his lot, the last of the bachelors. Hybris (Reckless
Pride) became his wife,...

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And I've become the 
victim of my own hybris. 
I was ...careless and

proud when I thought you 
are harmless to me. Now I
am trying to

bribe Fate itself to 
give me back my wasted years; 
the years I wasted on you....

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