“Thrones have many foes and friends untrue,says Accius. But of what sort of throne was he speaking? Why, one that was held by right, handed down from Tantalus and Pelops. Aye, but how many more foes, think you, had that king who with the Roman People's army brought the Roman People themselves into subjection and compelled a state that not only had been free but had been mistress of the world to be his slave?
but few devoted friends,
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What greater advantage one could have, according
to the standard of popular opinion, than to be a king,
I do not know; when, however, I begin to bring the
question back to the standard of truth, then I find
nothing more disadvantageous for one who has risen to
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that height by injustice. For can occasions for worry,
anxiety, fear by day and by night, and a life all beset
with plots and perils be of advantage to anybody?
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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