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Wherefore, and that is the last sentence in the answers of the soothsayers,
“Beware that the constitution of the republic be not
changed.” In truth it is only with difficulty, even if we prop it
up on all sides, that the constitution, already undermined and resting on
all our shoulders, will be able to be kept together.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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