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I wish indeed that his desire for glory had led him in some other direction;
but the time for this complaint has passed by. He prosecuted Caius Antonius,
my colleague; an unhappy man, to whom the recollection of the great service
which he did the republic was no benefit, but to whom the belief of the evil
which he had designed was the greatest prejudice. After that he never was
behind any of his fellows in his constant appearance in the forum, in his
incessant application to business and to the causes of his friends, and in
the great influence which he acquired over his relations. He achieved by his
labour and diligence all those objects which they cannot attain who are
other than vigilant, and sober, and industrious men.
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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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