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Moreover, you used to complain of that former master, who was a man; what do
you think you will do when your master is a beast? And you say that you are a
man who have always been desirous of peace, and have always wished for the
preservation of all the citizens. Very honest language; that is, if you mean all
citizens who are virtuous, and useful, and serviceable to the republic; but if
you wish those who are by nature citizens, but by inclination enemies, to be
saved, what difference is there between you and them? Your father, indeed, with
whom I as a youth was acquainted, when he was an old man,—a man of
rigid virtue and wisdom,—used to give the greatest praise of all
citizens who had ever lived to Publius Nasica, who slew Tiberius Gracchus. By
his valor, and wisdom, and magnanimity he thought that the republic had been
saved.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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