Cicero: “Nay; can what is inexpedient for the state be expedient for any individual citizen?”

In my opinion, at least, we should always strive to secure a peace that shall not admit of guile.

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.

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

For we may well be guided by those fundamental principles of justice which I laid down at the outset: first, that no harm be done to anyone; second, that the common interests be conserved.