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This noble cause of which I am the advocate has made
me popular, a man who (as you know) has always opposed the rashness of the
people. And those men are called, or rather they call themselves, consulars;
though no man is worthy of that name except those who can support so high an
honor. Will you favor an enemy? Will you let him send you letters about his
hopes of success? Will you be glad to produce them? to read them? Will you even
give them to wicked citizens to take copies of? Will you thus raise their
courage? Will you thus damp the hopes and valor of the good? And then will you
think yourself a consular, or a senator, or even a citizen! Caius Pansa, a most
fearless and virtuous consul, will take what I say in good part. For I will
speak with a disposition most friendly to him; but I should not consider him
himself a consul, though a man with whom I am most intimate, unless he was such
a consul as to devote all his vigilance, and cares, and thoughts to the safety
of the republic.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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