This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
— Herodotus
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• Book 9, Ch. 16
• Variant translations:
• Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
• The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Herodotus" (The Histories)
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