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But those whom Nature has endowed with the1
capacity for administering public affairs should put
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aside all hesitation, enter the race for public office,
and take a hand in directing the government; for
in no other way can a government be administered
or greatness of spirit be made manifest. Statesmen,
too, no less than philosophers—perhaps even more
so—should carry with them that greatness of spirit
and indifference to outward circumstances to which
I so often refer, together with calm of soul and freedom from care, if they are to be free from worries
and lead a dignified and self-consistent life.
1 Public service a duty.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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