"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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InventorsNon-fiction authors from EnglandPeople from Bristol
Original Language: English

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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.