The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca the YoungerMost people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Seneca the YoungerI can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.
Seneca the Younger