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He remembers, also, that the voice of the crier
proclaiming his triumph, was the only thing wanting to him, but that he was
declared consul by the unanimous vote of the people, and that was the great
object of his ambition. And now if all these things are to go against him,
it will be only the suspicion of guilt, not the reality of any crime, which
has injured him. He adds this, which is unquestionably true; that brave and
wise men are not in the habit of setting their hearts so much on the rewards
for virtuous conduct as on the fact of their conduct being so; that he has
never acted throughout his life in any but the most honourable manner, since
there can be nothing better for a man to do than to deliver his country from
dangers; that those men are happy for whom such conduct procures honour
among their fellow-citizens,
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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