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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
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With him I can, indeed, compare you as to your desire to reign; but in all other
respects you are in no degree to be compared to him. But from the many evils
which by him have been burned into the republic, there is still this good, that
the Roman people has now learned how much to believe every one, to whom to trust
itself, and against whom to guard. Do you never think on these things? And do
you not understand that it is enough for brave men to have learned how noble a
thing it is as to the act, how grateful it is as to the benefit done, how
glorious as to the fame acquired, to slay a tyrant?
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