For as the morally wrong cannot by any possibility be made morally right, however successfully it may be covered up, so what is not morally right cannot be made expedient, for nature refuses and resists.
Cicero articulates a fundamental ethical principle, arguing that no amount of concealment or rationalization can transform a wrong act into a right or expedient one.
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