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After that, did not Quintus Pompeius, a
man born in a low and obscure rank of life, gain the very highest honours by
encountering the enmity of many, and great personal danger, and by undertaking great
labour? And lately we have seen Caius Fimbria, Caius Marcius, and Caius Caelius,
striving with no slight toil, and in spite of no insignificant opposition, to arrive
at those honours which you nobles arrive at while devoted to amusement or absorbed
in indifference. This is the system, this is the path for our adoption. These are
the men whose conduct and principles we follow.
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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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