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Nor does the expectation which people have formed of my
conduct of this prosecution, nor this concourse of so vast a multitude as is here
assembled, influence me (though indeed I am greatly agitated by these circumstances)
so much as his nefarious plots which he is endeavouring to lay at one and the same
time against me, against you, against Marcus Gabrio the praetor, and against the
allies, against foreign nations, against the senate, and even against the very name
of senator; whose favourite saying it is that they have got to fear who have stolen
only as much as is enough for themselves, but that he has stolen so much that it may
easily be plenty for many; that nothing is so holy that it cannot be corrupted, or
so strongly fortified that it cannot be stormed by money.
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