Cicero: “The influence of moral right is so potent, that it eclipses the specious appearance of expediency.”

What a sorry state of servitude for a virtue--to be pandering to sensual pleasure!

Not only must we show consideration for those whom we have conquered by force of arms but we must also ensure protection to those who lay down their arms and throw themselves upon the mercy of our generals, even though the battering-ram…

For self-control is the foe of the passions, and the passions are the handmaids of pleasure.

So, then, it is truth that is, as it were, the stuff with which this virtue has to deal and on which it employs itself.