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This is wonderful praise, which is not celebrated by the verses of poets, nor
by the records of annals, but is estimated by the judgments of wise men. He
took up the cause of a Roman knight, his own ancient friend, one zealous
for, attached and devoted to himself, who was getting involved in
difficulties; not through licentiousness, nor through any discreditable
expense and waste to gratify his passions, but through an honest endeavour
to increase his fortune; he would not allow him to fall; he propped him up
and supported him with his estate, his fortune, and his good faith, and he
supports him to this day. Nor will he allow his friend, trembling in the
balance as he is, to fall; nor does the splendour of his own reputation at
all dazzle his eyes, nor does the height of his own position and of his own
renown at all obscure the piercing vision of his mind.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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