"Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit, sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus."
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Variant translations:The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report. —John Bartlett, ed. Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (1891), p. 707
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