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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
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Epigrams, Book iv, Epistle 5. Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), Seneca, Herc. Furens, ii. 250.

 

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