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And therefore I say decidedly that
it is quite impossible for the same man to do justice properly to the part of an accuser and a
candidate for the consulship. Few can play either part well; no one can do justice to both.
Did you, when you turned aside out of the course prescribed for you as a candidate, and when
you had transferred your attention to the task of prosecuting, think that you could fulfil all
the requirements of both? You were greatly mistaken if you did; for what day was there after
you once entered on that prosecution, that you did not devote the whole of it to that
occupation?
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