Cicero: “From this, one would realize that, if such rewards are offered, civil wars will never cease to be.”

Again, there are certain duties that we owe even to those who have wronged us.

What a sorry state of servitude for a virtue--to be pandering to sensual pleasure!

For we are all attracted and drawn to a zeal for learning and knowing; and we think it glorious to excel therein, while we count it base and immoral to fall into error, to wander from the truth, to be ignorant, to be led astray.

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…