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And I need not remind you with what terror all good men were seized in consequence of these
occurrences, and how entirely they would all have despaired of the republic if he had been
made consul. All this you yourselves recollect; for you remember, when the expressions of that
wicked gladiator got abroad, which he was said to have used at a meeting at his own house,
when he said that it was impossible for any faithful defender of the miserable citizens to be
found, except a man who was himself miserable; that men in an embarrassed and desperate
condition ought not to trust the promises of men of a flourishing and fortunate estate; and
therefore that those who were desirous to replace what they had spent, and to recover what
they had lost, had better consider what he himself owed, what he possessed, and what he would
dare to do; that that man ought to be very fearless and thoroughly overwhelmed by misfortune,
who was to be the leader and standard-bearer of unfortunate men.
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