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For it was seen by me before in many instances, and
especially in my own, and now it is clearly understood by everybody, since
you have granted Marcus Marcellus to the senate and people of Rome, in spite
of your recollection of all the injuries you have received at his hands,
that you prefer the authority of this order and the dignity of the republic
to the indulgence of your own resentment or your own suspicions.
He, indeed, has this day reaped the greatest possible reward for the virtuous
tenor of his previous life; in the great unanimity of the senate in his
favour, and also in your own most dignified and important opinion of him.
And from this you, in truth, must perceive what great credit there is in
conferring a kindness, when there is such glory to be got even by receiving
one.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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