Poe notes Engl. Je les menageais. Poe says the word is untranslatable. Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio.
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than too much cunning.
It's safe to say that every commonly held idea, every generally observed convention, is idiocy, for it has suited the greatest number of men. Lines from an 18th-century French tragedy written in the classical manner. Atreus and Thyestes were brothers. Thyestes seduced Atreus's wife and she bore a son, Plisthenes. Later, in revenge, Atreus butchered and cooked Plisthenes and served up choice morsels to Thyestes, who enjoyed the snack until he discovered what he was eating.