“A good man will do what he thinks it will be honorable for him to do, even if it involves toil; he will do it even if it involves harm to him; he will do it even if it involves peril; again, he will not do that which will be base, even if it brings him money, or pleasure or power. Nothing will deter him from that which is honorable, and nothing will tempt him into baseness.”

— Seneca, Epistle LXXVI: On Learning Wisdom in Old Age