“Best fishing in troubled waters.”
Orlando Furioso (completed in 1591).
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“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.
