foederum, privati juris:"

["The memory of private right remaining even amid
public dissensions."--Livy, xxv. 18.]

"Et nulla potentia vires
Praestandi, ne quid peccet amicus, habet;"

["No power on earth can sanction treachery against a friend."
--Ovid, De Ponto, i. 7, 37.]

and that all things are not lawful to an honest man for the service of
his prince, the laws, or the general quarrel:

"Non enim patria praestat omnibus officiis....
et ipsi conducit pios habere cives in parentes."

["The duty to one's country does not supersede all other duties.
The country itself requires that its citizens should act piously
toward their parents."--Cicero, De Offic., iii. 23.]

Tis an instruction proper for the time wherein we live: we need not
harden our courage with these arms of steel; 'tis enough that our
shoulders are inured to them: 'tis enough to dip our pens in ink without
dipping them in blood. If it be grandeur of courage, and the effect of a
rare and singular virtue, to contemn friendship, private obligations, a
man's word and relationship, for the common good and obedience to the
magistrate, 'tis certainly sufficient to excuse us, that 'tis a grandeur
that can have no place in the grandeur of Epaminondas' courage.