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The very records which
used to contain accounts of that old fashioned strictness of morals, are
worn out and that not only among us, who have adopted this school and system
of life in reality more than in words, but also among the Greeks most
learned men, who, though they could not act in such a manner were
nevertheless at liberty to speak and write honourably and magnificently;
when the habits of Greece became
changed other precepts arose and prevailed.
Therefore some of their wise men said that they did everything for the sake
of pleasure; and even learned men were not ashamed of the degradation of
uttering such a sentiment.
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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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