‘How pleasant it is to learn that a friend, a man who is bound to one by ties of mutual hospitality, is faring so well. Nevertheless, your outstanding good fortune is not a cause of unconfined joy to me – for I well know that the gods are given to envy. What I wish for myself, and for those I care about – if I may put it like this – is a career that blends good fortune with the occasional stumble. Better to go through life experiencing bad as well as good luck than to know nothing but success. I have never yet known nor heard tell of anyone who enjoyed prosperity so total that he did not ultimately come to a bad end and lose everything that had previously sustained him That being so, I would advise you, in the face of your good fortune, to adopt the following policy. Think hard and identify the object that is most precious to you, the one that would cause you the most heartache to lose – and then throw it away, some place where there is no chance of its ever coming back into human hands.’
Herodotus (b 484 BCE-425 BCE), “The Madness of Cambyses”
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