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If, therefore, the energy, and fierceness, and
pertinacity of Caelius appear to any one to have boiled over too much,
either in respect of his voluntary incurring, or of his mode of carrying on
enmities; if even any of the most trifling particulars of his conduct in
this respect seem offensive to any one; or if any one feels displeased at
the magnificence of his purple robe, or at the troops of friends who escort
him, or at the general splendour and brilliancy of his appearance, let him
recollect that all these things will soon pass away,—that a riper
age, and circumstances, and the progress of time, will soon have softened
down all of them.
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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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