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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue
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"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue"

- Seneca the Younger

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This quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a pointer that success and fortune do not always relate to virtue. Seneca is recommending that even if an individual achieves success and lucky in their criminal activities, it does not make them virtuous. He is warning against the idea that success and fortune can be utilized to justify unethical behavior. He is also stressing the value of morality and virtue, which success and fortune need to not be the only step of an individual's worth. Seneca is reminding us that even if an individual succeeds and lucky in their criminal activities, it does not make them virtuous. He is suggesting that success and fortune should not be utilized to justify unethical behavior, and that morality and virtue should be the main measure of an individual's worth. Ultimately, Seneca is emphasizing the value of morality and virtue, which success and fortune should not be the only procedure of a person's worth.

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Seneca the Younger This quote is written / told by Seneca the Younger between 5 BC and 65 AC. He was a famous Statesman from Rome. The author also have 125 other quotes.

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