"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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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, "Seneca the Younger"
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Tragedies, Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 251-253; (Amphitryon)
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The older I get the more I appreciate Seneca, wish I did while in college
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    We hold this truth to be self evident. The occupying statist theocracy infesting this land is the largest criminal cabal on the planet.
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