Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Unknown

Prosperum ac felix scelus

Virtus vocatur

(Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue).

Seneca: Herc. Furens, ii. 250.

As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind

To look out thorough, and his frailty find.[39:2]

History of the Civil War. Book iv. Stanza 84.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.