| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 8590 |
| AUTHOR: | Ovid (43 B.C.A.D. 18) |
| QUOTATION: | The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Fasti. iv. 311. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | Note 1. And the mind conscious of virtue may bring to thee suitable rewards.Virgil: Æneid, i. 604. [back] |
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