'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude … - Michel de Montaigne

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

There is nothing so easy, so sweet, and so favourable, as the divine law: it calls and invites us to her, guilty and abominable as we are; extends her arms and receives us into her bosom, foul and polluted as we at present are, and are for the future to be. But then, in return, we are to look upon her with a respectful eye; we are to receive this pardon with all gratitude and submission, and for that instant at least, wherein we address ourselves to her, to have the soul sensible of the ills we have committed, and at enmity with those passions that seduced us to offend her;

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.