7.  For it is right to pride one’s self upon requiting those who have done some wrong, but to feel more highly elated over recompensing such as have conferred some benefit. (Mai, p.536.)

8. ¶All men are by nature so constituted as to grieve more over any insults offered them than they rejoice over benefits conferred upon them:  therefore they show hostility to persons who have injured them with less effort than they require for aiding in return persons who have shown them kindness; hence also they make no account, when their own advantage is concerned, of the ill reputation they will gain by not taking a friendly attitude toward their preserver, but indulge a spirit of wrath even when such behavior runs counter to their own interest.

Such was the advice he gave them out of his own inherent good sense and experience acquired in a long life, not looking to the gratification of the moment but to the possible regret of the future.  (Mai, p.162.)

9. ¶The people of Capua, when the Romans after [Sidenote:  B.C. 321 (a.u. 433)] their defeat arrived in that city, were guilty of no bitter speech or outrageous act, but on the contrary gave them both food and horses and received them like victors.  They pitied in their misfortune the men whom they would have not wished to see conquer on account of the treatment those same persons had formerly accorded them.  When the Romans heard of the event they were altogether possessed by doubt whether to be pleased at the survival of their soldiers or whether to continue displeased.  When they thought of the depth of the disgrace their grief was extreme; for they deemed it unworthy of them to have met with defeat, and especially at the hands of the Samnites, so that they could wish that all had perished; when they stopped to reflect, however, that if such a calamity had befallen them all the rest as well would have incurred danger, they were not sorry to hear that the men had been saved. (Mai, p.162.  Zonaras, 7, 26.) 10. ¶It is requisite and blameless for all men to plan for their own safety, and if they get into any danger to do anything whatsoever so as to be preserved. (Mai, p.163.)

11. ¶Pardon is granted both by gods and by men to such as have committed any act involuntarily. (Ib.  Zonaras, 7, 26.)

12.  Dio in Book 8:  “I both take to myself the crime and admit the perjury.” (Bekker, Anecd. p.165, 13.)

13.  Dio in Book 8:  “For in all such matters he was quite all-sufficient to himself.” [Footnote:  This is thought to refer to L. Papirius Cursor or possibly to Q. Fabius Maximus.  Cp.  Livy, X, 26.] (Ib. p.124, 1.)