“Thou shalt learn,
Late though it be, the lesson to be wise.”

—  Aeschylus , Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1425 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)

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Γνώσῃ διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.

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