If supremacy is to be sought for the sake of glory, crime should be excluded, for there can be no glory in crime; but if it is power for its own sake that is sought, whatever the price, it cannot be expedient if it is linked with shame.
Cicero argues in his work on moral duties that true glory cannot be found in crime, and power sought through shameful means cannot be truly expedient.
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