Cicero: “For if we had not allowed the crimes of many to go unpunished, so great licence would never have centred in one…”

There are, on the other hand, two kinds of injustice--the one, on the part of those who inflict wrong, the other on the part of those who, when they can, do not shield from wrong those upon whom it is being inflicted.

Now, those who care for the interests of a part of the citizens and neglect another part, introduce into the civil service a dangerous element--dissension and party strife.

Further than this, who fails to see that those promises are not binding which are extorted by intimidation or which we make when misled by false pretences?

For we contend, for example, with a fellow-citizen in one way, if he is a personal enemy, in another, if he is a rival: with the rival it is a struggle for office and position, with the enemy for life and honour.