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The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

— Ovid

Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit

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IV, 311. Compare: "And the mind conscious of virtue may bring to thee suitable rewards", Virgil, The Aeneid, i, 604

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