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For do not believe, as you often see it written in
fables, that they who have done anything impiously and wickedly are really driven about
and frightened by the furies with burning torches. It is his own dishonesty and the
terrors of his own conscience that especially harassed each individual; his own
wickedness drives each criminal about and affects him with madness; his own evil
thoughts, his own evil conscience terrifies him. These are to the wicked their incessant
and domestic furies which night and day exact from wicked sons punishment for the crimes
committed against their parents.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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