Cicero: “Don't you think that the soul which has the clearer and longer sight sees that it is starting for better things, while…”

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.

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

For there is a limit to retribution and to punishment; or rather, I am inclined to think, it is sufficient that the aggressor should be brought to repent of his wrong-doing, in order that he may not repeat the offence and that others may…

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