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In truth, I recollect in what state it is that I have done such great exploits, and in what
city I am living. The forum is full of those men whom I, O judges, have taken off from your
necks, but have not removed from my own. Unless you think that they were only a few men, who
were able to attempt or to hope that they might be able to destroy so vast an empire. I was
able to take away their firebrands, to wrest their torches from their hands, as I did; but
their wicked and impious inclinations I could neither cure nor eradicate. Therefore I am not
ignorant in what danger I am living among such a multitude of wicked men, since I see that I
have undertaken single-handed an eternal war against all wicked men.
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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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