pride and accidental superiority before reversal

greek

• Aesop's Fables; a new translation BY G. K. CHESTERTON / AND ILLUSTRATIONS / BY ARTHUR RACKHAM / INTRODUCTION; lines 175-222 confidence: medium

  Whether fables began with Aesop or Adam, and whether compared with Reynard the Fox or La Fontaine, the passage says the upshot is essentially the same: superiority is insolent because accidental, pride precedes a fall, and one may be too clever by half.

  The passage states that superiority is accidental and insolent, that pride goes before a fall, and that cleverness can be excessive.

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