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truth you ought to make investigation on this principle; where you see that many things
have been done avariciously, many audaciously, many wickedly, many perfidiously, there
you ought to think that wickedness also lies hid among so many crimes; although this
indeed does not lie hid at all, which is so manifest and exposed to view, that it may be
perceived, not by those vices which it is evident exist in him, but even if any one of
those vices be doubted of, he may be convicted of it by the evidence of this crime. What
then, I ask, shall we say, O judges? Does this gladiator seem entirely to have thrown
off his former character? or does that pupil of his seem to yield but little to his
master in skill? Their avarice is equal, their dishonesty similar, their impudence is
the same; the audacity of the one is twin-sister to the audacity of the other.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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