Cicero: “No act of theirs can be expedient, when what they do is tainted with so many vices.”

But those wars which have glory for their end must be carried on with less bitterness.

For we may well be guided by those fundamental principles of justice which I laid down at the outset: first, that no harm be done to anyone; second, that the common interests be conserved.

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

Further than this, who fails to see that those promises are not binding which are extorted by intimidation or which we make when misled by false pretences?