Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Good Men are never Safe but when Wicked Men are at Odds. So that the Divisions of the One are the Security of the Other. REFLEXION. 'TIS a Hard Matter in This Case to Reconcile Policy, and Good Nature; or to bring a Plain-dealing Innocence into a Consistency with Necessary Prudence; For Singleness of Mind passes in the World for want of Brains, and where Knavery is in Credit, Honesty is sure to be a Drug: But Every Man must stand or fail to his Own Conscience, and so Divide the Mater as neither to Offend Christian Charity, nor Civil Discretion. ”
