Cicero: “If I were to say that I am not affected by regret for Scipio, I must leave the philosophers to justify my conduct, but…”

Accordingly, in encountering danger we should do as doctors do in their practice: in light cases of illness they give mild treatment; in cases of dangerous sickness they are compelled to apply hazardous and even desperate remedies.

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

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 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.