"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."
— Herodotus

January 1, 1970

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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.