Seneca the Younger Quotes About Prisons

• One crime has to be concealed by another.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Prison, Crime

  "Phaedra". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, DCCXXI, c. 290 AD.

• Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

  Seneca the Younger

  People, Fancy, Prison

• No crime has been without a precedent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prison, Crime, Precedent

  "Hippolytus, DLIV". DLIV, 1st century.

• While crime is punished it yet increases.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prison, Crime, Increase

  "Thyestes". XXXI, 1st century.

• The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Guilt, Prison

  "Troades". DCCCLXX,

• There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

  Seneca the Younger

  Punishment, Wickedness, Deeds

• Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

  Seneca the Younger

  Rivers, Fire, Darkness

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