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If I can not eradicate my most
just indignation, I will conceal it. What? Do you not think, O conscript
fathers, that I should have some regard for my own life? But that indeed has
never been an object of much concern to me, especially since Dolabella has acted
in such a way that death is a desirable thing, provided it come without torments
and tortures. But in your eyes and in those of the Roman people my life ought
not to appear of no consequence. For I am a man,—unless indeed I am
deceived in my estimate of myself,—who by my vigilance, and anxiety,
by the opinions which I have delivered, and by the dangers too of which I have
encountered great numbers, by reason of the most bitter hatred which all impious
men bear me, have at least (not to seem to say any thing too boastful) conducted
myself so as to be no injury to the republic.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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