> Qui autem omnia metiuntur emolumentis et commodis, neque ea volunt praeponderari honestate, hi solent in deliberando honestum cum eo quod utile putant, comparare: boni viri non solent. Etenim non modo pluris putare quod utile videatur quam quod honestum, sed haec etiam inter se comparare, et in his addubitare, turpissimum est.

-- M. Tullii Ciceronis De Officiis III, 4

Those who measure everything by the profits and benefits they can get, and don't want to put honesty on top, while deciding, they use to compare what they regard as honest against what they view as useful: but good men don't do that. And so, not only they consider more worthy what seems to be useful than what seems to be honest, but even compare those [i. e. the useful things] against each other: to hesitate among these things is the vilest.

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Additus prid. kal. Oct., MMDCCLXXVI a.U.c.