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But in Marcus Caelius (for I will speak with the greater confidence of his
honourable pursuits, because, relying on your good sense, O judges, I am not
afraid freely to confess some things respecting him) no luxury will be
found; no extravagance; no debt; no lasciviousness; no devotion to banquets
or to gluttony. Those vices, forsooth, of the belly and the throat, age is
so far from diminishing in men, that it even increases them. And loves, and
those things which are called delights, and which, when men have any
strength of mind, are not usually troublesome to them for any length of
time, (for they wear off early and very rapidly,) never had any firm hold on
this man so as to entangle or embarrass him. You have heard him, when he was
speaking in his own defence.
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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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