The story is that a man, eating with a Satyr one winter day, blew on his hands, and when the Satyr asked him why, he answered that it was to warm his hands. Then when he found the soup too hot, he blew on it. The Satyr asked again why he did so, and the man replied that it was to cool the soup. “Then,” said the Satyr, “I renounce your friendship, because you blow hot and cold out of the same mouth.”

—AESOP, Fables (c. 570 B.C.)