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Do you
approve of the manners of men at present? Do you approve of men's behaving
themselves in magistracies as they do? Do you approve, finally, of our allies being
treated as you see that they have been treated all this time? Why am I forced to
take all this trouble? Why are you all sitting here? Why do you not rise up and
depart before I have got halfway through my speech? Do you wish to lay open at all
the audacity and licentiousness of these men? Give up doubting whether it is more
useful, because there are so many wicked men, to spare one, or by the punishment of
one wicked man, to check the wickedness of many.
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