Cicero: “You might just as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life; for the immortal gods have given us nothing…”

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

Such acts of generosity are not to be so highly esteemed as those which are performed with judgment, deliberation, and mature consideration.

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

Now, those who care for the interests of a part of the citizens and neglect another part, introduce into the civil service a dangerous element--dissension and party strife.