An idea from On Duties

People trust you for 2 things, good judgment and honesty, and honesty counts for more. The cleverer a dishonest person is, the less anyone trusts him. So “justice without wisdom will be able to do much; wisdom without justice will be of no avail at all.”

From On Duties by Cicero

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