"Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word happy in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky..."
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Herodotus
About Herodotus
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian best known for The Histories, his account of the Greco-Persian Wars. His work combines narrative history with ethnographic and geographic inquiry and is often treated as a foundational text of Western historiography.
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