Cicero: “Indeed, if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an…”

In the matter of a promise one must always consider the meaning and not the mere words.

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

So, then, it is truth that is, as it were, the stuff with which this virtue has to deal and on which it employs itself.

The first office of justice is to keep one man from doing harm to another, unless provoked by wrong; and the next is to lead men to use common possessions for the common interests, private property for their own.