"They followed the timeless advice that the poet [[Juvenal]] gave a [[Roman]] politician named [[Ponticus]], back in the second century AD: "**Be a good soldier, a good guardian, an incorruptible judge**; if summoned as a witness in some dubious and uncertain case, even if the tyrant [[Phalaris]] himself should command you to life, and bringing up his bull, to dictate the perjury he would have you to tell, count it an abomination to prefer life to honor, and **to lose for the sake of living, the reason to live**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[character]], [[personal-values]], [[self-control]], [[discipline]], [[corporate-governance]], **Source** -- [[202409180127 - B - Right Thing, Right Now]]