“Better wicked Lucifer for a master, thought I, than a pious Tyrant!”
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 13 (p. 361)
“The pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.”
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Apuleius
The Prophecy of Hermes Trismegistus
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