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What do I mean, then?
Some one will ask, perhaps, whether I have any objection to ward off danger from a client's
life by the protection with which the law supplies me? I have no objection at all, O judges;
but I adhere to my own plan of action. In a trial in which all honourable and a wise man is
concerned, I have been accustomed, not only to consult my own judgment, but very much also to
be guided by the judgment and inclination of him whom I am defending. For when this cause was
brought to me, as to a person who ought to know the laws on which we are employed, and to
which we devote ourselves, I said at once to Habitus that he was perfectly safe from the law
about “those who conspired together to procure a man's condemnation;” but
that our order was liable to be impeached under that law. And he began to beg and entreat me
not to defend him by urging points of law. And when I said what I thought, he brought me over
to his opinion; for he affirmed with tears that he was not more desirous of retaining his
freedom as a citizen, than of preserving his character.
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