redemptus

i've finished my corruption project. i gave all the books back to the library. here is the best citation i found during the research:

"It happens that you are made a judge. You are not corrupted because you do not seek what is not your own. No one gives you a reward and says, 'Judge against my adversary.' . . . See what evil you will do for what is your property. Perhaps he who wants you to judge wrongly and issue a judgment for him against his adversary is a powerful man, and he is able to slander you so that you will lose what is your own. You note his power. You think of it. You think of your property which you have and love, which you have not possessed wrongly but have clung to wrongly . . . . You will judge wrongly, not when you seek what is another's, but when you keep your own.

Augustine of Hippo, qtd. in Noonan, Bribes