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When Amasis had read the letter of Polycrates, he perceived that it
does not belong to man to save his fellow-man from the fate which is in
store for him; likewise he felt certain that Polycrates would end
ill, as he prospered in everything, even finding what he had thrown
away. So he sent a herald to Samos, and dissolved the contract of
friendship. This he did, that when the great and heavy misfortune
came, he might escape the grief which he would have felt if the
sufferer had been his bond-friend.
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