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Do you think that those nations are influenced in giving their
evidence by the sanctity of an oath, and by the fear of the immortal gods, which are so widely
different from other nations in their habits and natural disposition? For other nations
undertake wars in defence of their religious feelings; they wage war against the religion of
every people; other nations when waging war beg for sanction and pardon from the immortal
gods; they have waged war with the immortal gods themselves.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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