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John Harington: Citations en anglais
“Books give not wisdom where was none before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
Epigram in Muses Library (1737), p. 310.
“Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
Epigrams, Book iv, Epistle 5. Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), Seneca, Herc. Furens, ii. 250.