Eliot Spitzer went on television last night to discuss the errors of his past with Jay Leno. It was all fated, you see.
… Leno asked Spitzer about his fall from grace, saying, “How did you make this big a blunder?”
“There was a phrase that I used that was, ‘Hubris is terminal,’” Spitzer replied. “People who fall prey to hubris, end up falling themselves … And this is something that I think infected me.”
“There was a phrase that I used that was, ‘Hubris is terminal,’” Spitzer replied. “People who fall prey to hubris, end up falling themselves … And this is something that I think infected me.”
The Greeks, as usual, had a word for it. Modern Americans do, too.
Several, actually.
