• That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

    Marcus Tullius Cicero: That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!
    "Philippics". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.