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24. As to destroying and plundering cities, let
me say that great care should be taken that nothing
be done in reckless cruelty or wantonness. And it is
a great man's duty in troublous times to single out
the guilty for punishment, to spare the many, and in
every turn of fortune to hold to a true and honourable course. For whereas there are many, as I have
said before, who place the achievements of war above
those of peace, so one may find many to whom
adventurous, hot-headed counsels seem more brilliant
and more impressive than calm and well-considered
measures.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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