Of Honesty* (Four Articles) [*Honesty must be Taken Here in Its Broad Sense as Synonymous with Moral Goodness, from the Point of view of Decorum. ]
Summa Theologica — Saint Thomas Aquinas
We must now consider honesty, under which head there are four points of inquiry:

(1) The relation between the honest and the virtuous;

(2) Its relation with the beautiful [*As honesty here denotes moral goodness, so beauty stands for moral beauty];

(3) Its relation with the useful and the pleasant;

(4) Whether honesty is a part of temperance?

whether even virtuous men can
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