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But if perchance, you envy that means of protection which I have, and if it seems to you to
be of a kingly sort,—namely, the fact that all good men of all ranks and classes
consider their safety as bound up with mine,—comfort yourself with the reflection
that the dispositions of all wicked men are especially hostile to and furious against me
alone; and they hate me, not only because I repressed their profligate attempts and impious
madness, but still more because they think, that, as long as I am alive, they can attempt
nothing more of the same sort.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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