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Therefore, our
orator will not suffer the complaints of our allies, the
death of friends or kinsmen, or conspiracies that
threaten the common weal to go unavenged, while
his conduct will be governed not by a passion to
secure the punishment of the guilty, but by the
[p. 421]
desire to correct vice and reform morals. For fear
is the only means of restraining those who cannot
be led to better ways by the voice of reason.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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