1) Seneca writing around 45 AD:
"The wise man will never stop being angry once he starts, so full is the world of crime and vice. More evil is being done than can ever be healed by punishment. Everywhere people seem engaged in a vast competition of wickedness...
"The wise man will never stop being angry once he starts, so full is the world of crime and vice. More evil is being done than can ever be healed by punishment. Everywhere people seem engaged in a vast competition of wickedness...
2) "Everyday it seems there is more desire to do wrong, and less fear of doing so. Any regard for doing the good and honest thing has long been thrown away. Lust rushes in wherever it wants and wickedness is no longer even kept secret, but paraded about before our eyes...
3) "Evil is so conspicuous, has achieved so much power in the world, that innocence is not just rare - it hardly seems to exist at all. Everywhere people seem to be rising up in unison as if whistled to do so, to set about destroying any last boundaries between right and wrong."
- Seneca, 'On Anger' (De Ira), II.9
c.45 AD
c.45 AD
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