Cicero: “But those who in a free state deliberately put themselves in a position to be feared are the maddest of the mad.”

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.

For if we bring a certain amount of propriety and order into the transactions of daily life, we shall be conserving moral rectitude and moral dignity.

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?

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