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To a tribune of the people who had been accused of using poison, and who was trying to force the passage of a useless bill, he said:
‘Young man, I know not which is worse, to drink your mixtures, or to enact your bills.’ And when he was reviled by a man who led a life of shameless debauchery, he said:
‘I fight an unequal battle with you: you listen to abuse calmly, and utter it glibly; while for me it is unpleasant to utter it, and unusual to hear it.’
Such, then, is the nature of his famous sayings.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 2.
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