مَن يرتكب الغشّ لا يذنب في حقّ مَن يخدعه وحده، بل في حقّ تلك الثقة التي لا تقوم عليها راحةُ المجتمع فحسب، بل وجودُه نفسه.

“Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.”Samuel Johnson — The Rambler: In Four Volumes (1784)