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He uses his masters as a sort of
superintendents of his lusts; they seek out and scent out all sorts of pleasures; they are the
seasoners and furnishers of his banquets they appraise and value the different pleasures, they
give a formal decision and judgment as to how much indulgence ought to be allowed to each
separate pleasure. He, becoming accomplished in all these arts, despised this most prudent
city to such a degree that he thought that all his lusts and all his atrocities could be
concealed, if he only thrust his ill-omened face into the forum.
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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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