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For neither can there be any greater safety for the republic imagined at this time,
than for the Roman people to understand that, if all unworthy judges are carefully
rejected by the accusers, the allies, the laws, and the republic can be thoroughly
defended by a bench of judges chosen from the senators; nor can any such injury to
the fortunes of all happen, as for all regard for truth, for integrity, for good
faith, and for religion to be, in the opinion of the Roman people, cast aside by the
senatorial body.
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