Seneca the Younger
Often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist.
quaeritur belli exitus, non causa.
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
Iniqua raro maximis virtutibus fortuna parcit ; nemo se tuto diu periculis offerre tam crebris potest ; quem saepe transit casus, aliquando invenit.
Illud autem ante omnia memento, demere rebus tumultum ac videre quid in quaque re sit: scies nihil esse in istis terribile nisi ipsum timorem.
Should I be surprised that dangers which have always surrounded me should at last attack me? A great part of mankind, when about to sail, do not think of a storm. I shall never be ashamed of a reporter of bad news in a good cause.
sic cum inferiore vivas quemadmodum tecum superiorem velis vivere.
It is too late to be thrifty when the bottom has been reached. (translator unknown).
Cui prodest scelus, is fecit.
He who profits by crime commits it. (translator unknown).