Cicero: “The boast of official integrity belongs not to that man alone but also to his times.”

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.

For they secure one sort of justice, to be sure, in that they do no positive wrong to anyone, but they fall into the opposite injustice; for hampered by their pursuit of learning they leave to their fate those whom they ought to defend.

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

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a pre-eminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.