Cicero: “For of course rashness is the note of youth, prudence of old age.”

But for the most part, people are led to wrong-doing in order to secure some personal end; in this vice, avarice is generally the controlling motive.

Besides, he will not expose anyone to hatred or disrepute by groundless charges, but he will surely cleave to justice and honour so closely that he will submit to any loss, however heavy, rather than be untrue to them, and will face death…

But those wars which have glory for their end must be carried on with less bitterness.

Thus apparent expediency is outweighed when placed in the balance against moral rectitude.