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I will just, O Caecilius, say this much familiarly to you about yourself, forgetting
for a moment this rivalry and contest of ours. Consider again and again what your own
sentiments are, and recollect yourself; and consider who you are, and what you are able
to effect. Do you think that, when you have taken upon yourself the cause of the allies,
and the fortunes of the province, and the rights of the Roman people, and the dignity of
the judgment-seat and of the law, in a discussion of the most important and serious
matters, you are able to support so many affairs and those so weighty and so various
with your voice, your memory, your counsel, and your ability?
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