Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. (translator unknown)
Seneca the Younger
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He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it. (translator unknown).
Seneca the Younger
He who profits by crime commits it. (translator unknown).
Seneca the Younger
There is no such thing as morality—only varingly expedient conventions. What to one race is a crime, is virtue to another; crime in one era is virtue in another; even a crime in one class of society is at the same time and in the same society virtue in another class . . . It makes no difference whether people are called good or bad; we are all here; now; there is only one world in existence, and in it there prevail either expedient or inexpedient conditions for those who are alive.
Halldor Laxness
Like Cusanus and Calvin, Bruno has an unknown and ineffable God. But his God is unknown not in virtue of His infinite actuality and real transcendence of the universe, but in virtue of the immensity of the universe itself and the relative disproportion between it and the human way of knowing and loving.
Giordano Bruno
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. (translator unknown).
Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
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