Secrets and honor

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care, for good men ought to show that they hold their honor more trustworthy than an oath. Isocrates. To Demonicus. Chapter 1. Section 22.


Psyche, 1st or 2nd century CE Roman copy of a 4th century BCE original, possibly by Praxiteles or Skopas. Found at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, Italy and photographed at the Capitoline Museum in Rome.

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