Cicero: “For can occasions for worry, anxiety, fear by day and by night, and a life all beset with plots and perils be of…”

Further than this, who fails to see that those promises are not binding which are extorted by intimidation or which we make when misled by false pretences?

He was wrong; for deceit does not remove the guilt of perjury--it merely aggravates it. #The ancient Roman discipline.# His cunning that impudently tried to masquerade as prudence was, therefore, only folly.

In my opinion, at least, we should always strive to secure a peace that shall not admit of guile.

It is, therefore, an excellent rule that they give who bid us not to do a thing, when there is a doubt whether it be right or wrong; for righteousness shines with a brilliance of its own, but doubt is a sign that we are thinking of a…