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But you, O stupidest
of all men, do you not perceive, that if it is a crime to have wished that
Caesar should be slain—which you accuse me of having
wished—it is a crime also to have rejoiced at his death? For what is
the difference between a man who has advised an action, and one who has approved
of it? or what does it signify whether I wished it to be done, or rejoice that
it has been done? Is there any one then, except you yourself and these men who
wished him to become a king, who was unwilling that that deed should be done, or
who disapproved of it after it was done? All men, therefore, are guilty as far
as this goes. In truth, all good men, as far as it depended on them, bore a part
in the slaying of Caesar. Some did not know how to contrive it, some had not
courage for it, some had no opportunity,—every one had the
inclination.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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