Seneca. 8 b. c. -65 a. d.
Not lost, but gone before.[714:6]
Epistolæ. 63, 16.
Whom they have injured they also hate.[714:7]
De Ira. ii. 33.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.[714:8]
De Providentia. 5, 9.
There is no great genius without a tincture of madness.[714:9]
De Tranquillitate Animi. 17.
Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.[714:10]
Hercules Furens. i. 1, 84.
[715]
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.[715:1]
Hercules Furens. 255.
A good man possesses a kingdom.[715:2]
Thyestes. 380.
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.[715:3]
On a Happy Life. 2. (L' Estrange's Abstract, Chap. i.)
Footnotes
[714:5] See Cowper, page 424.
[714:6] See Rogers, page 455.
[714:7] See Dryden, page 275.
[714:8] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 197.
[714:9] See Dryden, page 267.
[714:10] See Theobald, page 352.
[715:1] See Harrington, page 39.
[715:2] See Dyer, page 22.
[715:3] See Watts, page 303.