This always reminds me of a fragment of lost tragic ancient Greek verse, quoted only in Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric: Often, when the gods bring great prosperit

This always reminds me of a fragment of lost tragic ancient Greek verse, quoted only in Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric: Often, when the gods bring great prosperity as a gift for men They do so not out of goodwill towards them But so that their ruin may be more conspicuous.