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• Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Hercules Furens, i, 1, 255
• I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
  -- Seneca (8 BC) -- On a Happy Life, 2, (L'Estrange's Abstract, Chap, i.)...
• A good man possesses a kingdom. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Thyestes, 380
• Not lost, but gone before. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Epistolae, 63, 16
• You roll my log, and I will roll yours. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
• Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act v, Sc. 1...
• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- De Providentia, 5, 9
• Whom they have injured they also hate. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- De Ira, ii, 33
• Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself
  he has no desire for that of which he feels no want. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)...