But for all cases we have one rule, with which I desire you to be perfectly familiar: that which seems expedient must not be morally wrong; or, if it is morally wrong, it must not seem expedient.
From his philosophical treatise on moral duty, Cicero states a fundamental rule for aligning expediency with moral rightness.
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Oh glorious day when I shall set out to join that heavenly conclave and company of souls, and depart from the turmoil and impurities of this world!
Again, is there not the fact that the wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness, the most unwise with the least?
Now, old age is as it were the playing out of the drama, the full fatigue of which we should shun, especially when we also feel that we have had more than enough of it.
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