No legislature can authorize murder, nor make honesty penal, nor virtue a crime, nor exact impossibilities.

Rhasis, terms it, Judicium plerumque perversum, corrupti, cum judicant honesta inhonesta, et amicitiam habent pro inimicitia: they count honesty dishonesty, friends as enemies, they will abuse their best friends, and dare not offend their enemies.

"A man's honesty redounds to his advantage.