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I, in the case of one man, am finding fault with
every vice which can exist in a wicked and abandoned man. I say that there is no
indication of lust, of wickedness, of audacity, which you cannot see clearly in the
life of that one man. In the case of this criminal, I, O judges, establish this law
against myself; that I must so live as to appear to be, and always to have been,
utterly unlike that man, not only in all my actions and words, but even in that
arrogance and haughtiness of countenance and eyes which you see before you. I will
bear without uneasiness, O judges, that that course of life which was previously
agreeable to me of my own accord, shall now, by the law and conditions I hare laid
down for myself, become necessary for me.
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