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What, in the name of all that is
horrible, is the meaning of this voluntary slavery?—Some submission
may have been unavoidable: nor do I require this from every one of the men who
deliver their opinions from the consular bench; the case of those men whose
silence I pardon is different from that of those whose expression of their
sentiments I require; and I do grieve that those men have fallen under the
suspicion of the Roman people, not only as being afraid,—which of
itself would be shameful enough,—but as having different private
causes for being wanting to their proper dignity.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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