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“Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.”

“Call no man happy until he is dead.”

“An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him…He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.”

Herodotus (trans. Robin Waterfield) The Histories Bk. 1, ch. 32, pp. 15-16.