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Full Idea
Time would fail me if I tried to list all the good men for whom things have turned out badly. So it would if I tried to mention all the wicked who have prospered.
Gist of Idea
The lists of good men who have suffered and bad men who have prospered are endless
Source
M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], III.80)
Book Ref
Cicero: 'The Nature of the Gods', ed/tr. McGregor,Horace [Penguin 1972], p.228