QuoteQuest“rursus prosperum ac felix scelus virtus vocatur; sontibus parent boni, ius est in armis, opprimit leges timor.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Seneca the Younger
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.
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Younger, Seneca the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Seneca the Younger. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger
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