Cicero: “For if it were true that its material advantages cemented friendship, it would be equally true that any change in them…”

The first office of justice is to keep one man from doing harm to another, unless provoked by wrong; and the next is to lead men to use common possessions for the common interests, private property for their own.

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

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

But while they steer clear of the one kind of injustice, they fall into the other: they are traitors to social life, for they contribute to it none of their interest, none of their effort, none of their means.