Cicero: “The real limit to be observed in friendship is this: the characters of two friends must be stainless.”

For we are all attracted and drawn to a zeal for learning and knowing; and we think it glorious to excel therein, while we count it base and immoral to fall into error, to wander from the truth, to be ignorant, to be led astray.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a pre-eminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Still, I do not mean to find fault with the accumulation of property, provided it hurts nobody, but unjust acquisition of it is always to be avoided.

Thus apparent expediency is outweighed when placed in the balance against moral rectitude.