Cicero: “But the last limit proposed is the worst, namely, that a friend's estimate of himself is to be the measure of our…”

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.

But for the most part, people are led to wrong-doing in order to secure some personal end; in this vice, avarice is generally the controlling motive.

For there are men who for fear of giving offence do not dare to express their honest opinion, no matter how excellent.

So, then, it is truth that is, as it were, the stuff with which this virtue has to deal and on which it employs itself.