It means: Don’t do all the beautiful things and things, and don’t take them all. Otherwise, the surrounding environment will either retaliate against you or weaken yourself. When God wants to cause a person trouble, he always makes him forget it. So if you want it to perish, you must first make it proud and complacent.

“If a god wants to destroy it, he must first make it crazy.” This sentence comes from the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.

English translation: "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad." ------Euripides

Influence: The tragedians of ancient Greece were all influenced by Hero. Dodd's influence, and made a sufficient interpretation of it. The more famous one is the repetition of the ancient Greek tragedy writer Eudipides: "If the gods want to destroy them, they must first make them crazy."?

Extended information:

Hero Dodd’s scholarly attitude

Herodotus’s narrative analysis of historical events and social phenomena has merit. Regarding the Greco-Persian War, he condemned Persia's expedition to Greece, saying that Persia "should no longer covet any other land, and should no longer enslave people who have not provoked it in the slightest." He believed that Persia failed because its military composition was too complex. Coupled with the difficulties of external operations.

Athens won because it practiced democracy and everyone fought "with all their heart" for freedom. Herodotus admired Greece, praised Athens, and yearned for slave-owner democracy, but he did not completely deny Persia. What he opposed was nothing more than the unjust act of the Persians invading Greece and its monarchy.

So sometimes he even described Persia as a country of heroes and selected and praised its culture. "History" mentions "everyone is equal before the law" for the first time.

"History" records that around 522 BC, when Persia was intensively discussing the choice of political form, three factions advocated the adoption of democratic politics, aristocratic politics and monarchy. Each of the three opinions held different opinions. Not giving in to each other.

In the heated debate, a Persian named Otanes said: "The advantage of popular rule lies first in its best reputation, that is, that everyone is equal before the law. ”

Herodotus paid more attention to ancient Eastern civilization and its influence on Greece. "History" records that the Egyptian solar calendar is more accurate than the Greek calendar; the Greek alphabet was learned from the Phoenicians; the sundial used by the Greeks was first invented by the Babylonians, and so on. The literary value of "History" is also very high. It is often considered to be the first famous prose work in the West.

Baidu Encyclopedia—Herodotus