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Although I feel greater anxiety as to how I am to show my gratitude to you who have deserved
excellently well of me than how I am to chastise the injustice and cruelty of my enemies. In
truth the means of revenging an injury are easier than those of requiting a kindness; because
there is less trouble in being superior to the wicked than in being equal to the good; and
also because it is not so necessary to requite bad men as good men for what you are indebted
to them.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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