Falsa fit poenitentia laici, cum penitus ab officio curiali vel negotiali non recedit, quae sine peccatis agi ulla ratione non praevalet. Latin. The repentance of a layman will be inefficacious, unless he withdraw entirely from professional and mercantile pursuits, which cannot, on any account, be transacted without (committing) sin.' The false logic of Monkish superstition.