Cicero: “Why, the supreme good, which ought to be simple, cannot be a compound and mixture of absolutely contradictory qualities.”

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.

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.

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

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?