Truth scales. Here's a Solon quote by Croesus via Munger

I cannot here pass by a reference to a life described as "wonderful so far,"

without reinforcing the "so far" aspects of the human condition by repeating the

remark of Croesus, once the richest king in the world. Later, in ignominious

captivity, as he prepared to be burned alive, he said: "Well now do I remember

the words of the historian Solon: 'No man's life should be accounted a happy one

until it is over.'"