Roger L'Estrange

“ Now as there can be No True Friendship betwixt a Good Man and a Wicked Man, there should be no Intercourse betwixt them that looks like Friendship, and therefore the Less Commerce the Better. As Jupiter, we see, would have Nothing to do with the Serpent. ”

“ A Good Man would not Willingly lye under any Obligation to a Person of a Lewd Character and Conversation; fer beside the Danger he Incurrs, it would not be for his Credit neither, where Presents are Scandals, and rather Snares then Benefits. 'Tis a kind of Incumbrance upon the freedom of a Generous Mind, to be debt to an Ill Man, even upon any Score whatsoever, that does but carry the face of Good Will, or Respet; for ’tis a Debt that a Man's both Asham'd and Weary of ’till 'tis paid off. ”

“ He lives uneasily under the Burden of it, and Consequently, it is the Debt of All Others that ought first to be Answer’d. And there's Somthing more in’t yet too, which is, that when All Common Scores are made even, the Morality of the Obligation still remains ”