Proof That Nothing EVER Changes.
Posted: 2003-05-27 05:39am
- Seneca, Book II of On Anger, from around 50 A.D.All those thousands rushing to the forum at day-break - how vile their law-suits are, how much viler their advocates! One brings an action against the verdicts of his father - he would have done better not to deserve them. Another proceeds against his mother. A third arrives to denounce a crime of which he is the more obvious culprit. A judge is selected to condemn what he himself has committed; and the gallery, corrupted by good pleading, sides with the bad.
