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But what will you say if I think nothing
of all these things, and if I persevere in the same course in the republic
which I have always pursued? will you still ask what is become of my
independence? which you make to consist in the fact of our struggling for
ever with any one with whom we have at any time had a contest. But this is
all nonsense; for we ought at all times to act as if we were standing in
some revolving orb of the republic, and as that turns round we ought to
choose that part to which the advantage and safety of the republic direct
us.
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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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