The Histories · 1.33

Thus saying he refused to gratify Croesus, who sent him away from his presence holding him in no esteem, and thinking him utterly senseless in that he passed over present good things and bade men look to the end of every matter.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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