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Ac si nos, id quod maxime debet, nostra patria delectat,
cuius rei tanta est vis ac tanta natura, ut Ithacam illam in
asperrimis saxulis tamquam nidulum adfixam sapientissimus
vir immortalitati anteponeret, quo amore tandem inflammati
esse debemus in eius modi patriam, quae una in omnibus
terris domus est virtutis, imperi, dignitatis? Cuius primum
nobis mens, mos, disciplina nota esse debet, vel quia est
patria parens omnium nostrum, vel quia tanta sapientia
fuisse in iure constituendo putanda est quanta fuit in his
tantis opibus imperi comparandis.
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