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They who are enemies
to the friends of Lucius Cornelius, or who envy them, are much more greatly
to be feared by him. For who has ever been found who would confess himself
an enemy to the man himself? Or who could be so with any reason? What good
man has he not cultivated the friendship of? Who is there whose fortune and
dignity he has not promoted? Living in the closest intimacy with the most
influential man in the state, at a time of our greatest misfortunes and most
bitter dissensions, he has never offended any one of either party, either by
act or word, or even by a look. It was my fate, or the fate of the republic,
that the whole weight of distress and ill-will at that time should fall upon
me alone. Cornelius was so far from exulting in my disasters or in your
dissensions, that while I was absent, he aided all my friends with his kind
assistance, with his tears, with his exertions, and with
consolation.
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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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