If anyone is under the impression that people who rob others or falsify accounts or do any evil thing get the advantage, he is wrong in his thinking. For none are at a greater disadvantage throughout their lives than such men. None are found in more difficult straits, none live in greater ignominy, and, in a word, none are more miserable than they. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 281.
Image: One of a series of frescoes painted on a wall of the Caupona of Salvius in Pompeii. Two men are shown seated at a table, playing a game of dice. The first proclaims, "EXSI" ("I won") and holds a fritillus, a cup used to shake the dice. The second man protests with, "NON / TRIA DUAS / EST" ("It's not three, it's two"). Fresco now in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. (Public domain)
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