Cicero: “I am thankful to old age, which has increased my avidity for conversation, while it has removed that for eating and…”

Again, there are certain duties that we owe even to those who have wronged us.

But those wars which have glory for their end must be carried on with less bitterness.

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

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