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For the defending of oneself against violence is never
a thing to be wished for; but it is sometimes necessary, unless, indeed, one
could say that that day on which Tiberius Gracchus was slain, or that day
when Caius was, or the day when the arms of Saturninus were put down, even
if they ended as the welfare of the republic demanded, were yet no wound and
injury to the republic.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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