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When you had done these mighty exploits for the safety of the republic, did you
repent of your fortune, or of the dignity and renown and glory which you had
acquired? Whence then is this sudden change? I cannot be induced to suspect that
you have been caught by the desire of acquiring money; every one may say what he
pleases, but we are not bound to believe such a thing; for I never saw anything
sordid or anything mean in you. Although a man's intimate friends do sometimes
corrupt his natural disposition, still I know your firmness; and I only wish
that as you avoid that fault, you had been able also to escape all suspicion of
it.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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