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Wherefore you ought to maintain and preserve that public inheritance of law which you have
received from your ancestors with no less care than your private patrimony and property, not
only because this last is fenced round and protected by the civil law, but also because if a
man loses his patrimony, it is only an individual who suffers, but if the law be lost, the
disaster affects the whole state.
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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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