Great Books Ep 106. Herodotus - The History - Book 1 (Clio), Part 1. On the Fragility of Success
One can truly assess whether a person was happy or successful only after their death, not by the peaks of their glory.
“He who unites the greatest number of advantages, and retaining them to the day of his death, then dies peaceably, that man alone, sire, is, in my judgment, entitled to bear the name of 'happy.' But in every matter it behoves us to mark well the end: for oftentimes God gives men a gleam of happiness, and then plunge…
