Those who prefer the way of injustice, thinking it the greatest good fortune to seize something that belongs to others, are in like case with animals which are lured by a bait

Those who prefer the way of injustice, thinking it the greatest good fortune to seize something that belongs to others, are in like case with animals which are lured by a bait, at the first deriving pleasure from what they seize, but the moment after finding themselves in desperate straits. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 34.

Image: Detail from 4th century CE big game hunt mosaic from the Villa Romana del Casale near the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro. (Digitally enhanced).

Note: Excavations at the Villa Romana del Casale have revealed one of the richest, largest, and most varied collections of Roman mosaics in the world earning the villa designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.