Sophocles Quote

We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre (ed. 1867)