"The bitterest sorrow that man can know is to aspire to do much and to achieve nothing" (polla phroneoita mêdenos chrateein)-so Herodotus relates that a Persian said to a Theban at a banquet (book ix., chap.
"Gizonen arteko oinazerik lazgarriena asko erdietsi nahi eta ezer ezin lortzea da", Herodotoren arauera (IX. lib.