Seneca the Younger

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• All art is but imitation of nature.

  Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXV: On the first cause, Line 3.

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• Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.

  Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 251-253; (Amphitryon)

  • Morality

• No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

  Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death, Line 4.

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