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It remains for me to speak of the authority and opinion of Quintus Catulus; who, when he
asked of you, if you thus placed all your dependence on Cnaeus Pompeius, in whom you would
have any hope, if anything were to happen to him, received a splendid reward for his own
virtue and worth, when you all, with almost one voice, cried out that you would, in that case,
put your trust in him. In truth he is such a man, that no affair can be so important, or so
difficult, that, he cannot manage it by his wisdom, or defend it by his integrity, or
terminate it by his valour. But, in this case, I entirely differ from him; because, the less
certain and the less lasting the life of man is, the more ought the republic to avail itself
of the life and valour of any admirable man, as long as the immortal gods allow it to do so.
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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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