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Others thought
that dignity ought to be united with pleasure, so as by their neatness of
expression to unite things as inconsistent with one another as possible.
Those who still think that the only direct road to glory is combined with
toil, are left now almost solitary in their schools. For
nature herself has supplied us with numerous allurements, by which virtue
may be lulled asleep, and at which, she may be induced to connive; nature
herself has at times pointed out to youth many slippery ways, on which it is
hardly possible for it to stand, or along which it can hardly advance
without some slip or downfall, and has supplied also an infinite variety of
exquisite delights, by which not only that tender age, but even one which is
more strongly fortified, may be caught.
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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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