"We make allowance for necessity...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.”

“No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.”

“There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.”

“Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.”

“The deep of night is crept upon our talk,And Nature must obey necessity.”

“Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.”

“I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.”

“The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.”

“Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.”