Cicero: “For you may be sure that more people will learn how to set such things in motion than how to stop them.”

For there are men who for fear of giving offence do not dare to express their honest opinion, no matter how excellent.

For self-control is the foe of the passions, and the passions are the handmaids of pleasure.

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

For whereas there are many, as I have said before, who place the achievements of war above those of peace, so one may find many to whom adventurous, hot-headed counsels seem more brilliant and more impressive than calm and well-considered…