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For what deliberative assembly is there in the whole earth, whether great or
little, which has not expressed that opinion of my exploits which is most
desirable and most honourable for me? The greatest council of the Roman
people, and of all peoples, and nations, and kings, is the senate. That
decreed that all men who desired the safety of the republic should come
forward to defend me alone, and showed its opinion that the republic could
not have been saved if I had not existed, and could not last if
I did not return.
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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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