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When such an illustrious man, will be exposed to their attacks without are
our circumstances, and such our perils, it becomes you, O Marcus Cato, who have been born, not
for my good, nor for your own good, but for that of your country, to perceive what are their
real objects; to retain as your assistant and defender, and partner in the republic, a consul
who has no private desires to gratify, a consul (as this season particularly requires) formed
by fortune to court ease, but by knowledge to carry on war, and by courage and practice to
discharge in a proper manner whatever business you can impose upon him.
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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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