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But if any one thinks that either my inclinations are
changed, or my courage weakened, or my spirit broken, he is greatly mistaken. All that the
violence, and injustice, and the frenzy of wicked men could take from me, it has taken away,
stripped me of, and destroyed; that which cannot be taken away from a brave man remains and
shall remain. I saw that most brave man, a fellow-citizen of my own municipal town, Caius
Marius, since, as if by some fatal necessity, we both had not only to contend with those who
wished to destroy all these things, but with fortune also—still I saw him, when he
was in extreme old age, with a spirit not only not broken on account of the
greatness of his misfortunes, but even strengthened and refreshed by it.
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