Law 10| Infection-Avoid The Unhappy And The Unlucky

You can die from someone’s else’s misery-emotional states are as infectious as diseases.  You may be helping the drowning man, but you are only precipitating your own disaster.  The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortunes on themselves, they will also draw it on you.  Associate with the happy and the fortunate.

Citation: Robert Greene, The 48 Laws Of Power, Page 76