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Although in one point the circumstances of foreign triumph are better than those of
domestic victory; because foreign enemies, either if they be crushed become one's servants,
or if they be received into the state, think themselves bound to us by obligations; but those
of the number of citizens who become depraved by madness and once begin to be enemies to
their country,—those men, when you have defeated their attempts to injure the
republic, you can neither restrain by force nor conciliate by kindness. So that I see that an
eternal war with all wicked citizens has been undertaken by me; which, however, I am
confident can easily be driven back from me and mine by your aid, and by that of all good
men, and by the memory of such great dangers, which will remain, not only among this people
which has been saved, but in the discourse and minds of all nations forever. Nor, in truth,
can any power be found which will be able to undermine and destroy your union with the Roman
knights, and such unanimity as exists among all good men.
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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