“None but himself can be his parallel.”

— Lewis Theobald

Double Falsehood; or The Distrest Lovers (1727). Compare: "Quæris Alcidæ parem? Nemo est nisi ipse" (translated: "Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself"), Seneca, Hercules Furens, i. 1; 84.

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