[1a] Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.3.2: If I had not had that idea about a triumph, which you also approve of, then you would not find me much short of that man who is described in the sixth book. Why should I be silent with you, who gobbled up those books? As it is, I will have no doubts about abandoning so grand a thing, if it is better to do so; it is impossible for both to proceed together, to campaign for a triumph and to speak freely on public affairs.

[1b] You are awaiting the complete foresight of this leader, which derives its name from seeing ahead. [+ Nonius 42.3]

[1c] Therefore this citizen must so prepare himself as always to be armed against things which disturb the stability of the state. [+ Nonius 256.27]

[1d] That discord of the citizens which is called sedition because people go apart in following different leaders. [+ Nonius 25.3]

[1e] And in fact in a civil discord, when the respectable citizens are more important than the majority, I believe that citizens should be weighed rather than counted. [+ Nonius 516.17]

[1f] The passions exercise powerful control over thoughts; they compel and command innumerable things, and since they can in no way be fulfilled and satiated, they drive to every sort of crime those whom they have inflamed with their enticements. [+ Nonius 424.31]