Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits…. It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits…. It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind." in the context of "Edmund Burke, "Letters on a Regicide Peace," letter 3, 1796–1797, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 5, p. 414" to mean that wisdom is timeless.