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iudices, ne de vestra sapientia atque de vestra humanitate
dubitare videar: est autem petendum ne oderitis ingenium,
ne inimici sitis industriae, ne humanitatem opprimendam,
ne virtutem puniendam1 putetis. illud peto, ut, si causam
ipsam per se firmam esse et stabilem videritis, hominis
ipsius ornamenta adiumento causae potius quam impedimento
esse malitis.
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