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In truth, O judges, that is not the only violence which reaches our persons and our lives,
but that is even a much greater one, which, by threatening us with the danger of death, often
drives our minds, agitated by fear as they are, from their steady position and condition.
Therefore, wounded men often, when they are enfeebled in body, still do not succumb as to
their courage, and do not leave the place which they have determined to defend; but others,
though unwounded, are driven away: so that there is no doubt but that the violence which is
done to a man whose mind is frightened, is much greater than that which is done to him whose
body is wounded.
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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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