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So that that saying appeared to me to
be a true one, which though some men devoted to literature and to learned
studies were said to have given utterance to it, appeared nevertheless to be
something incredible; namely, that the man whose soul contained every
virtue, could with the most perfect ease do everything which he might wish
to do. For how could there have been a greater fertility and variety and
richness of eloquence in Lucius Crassus, a man born to a most singular gift
of oratory if even he had pleaded this cause than was displayed by that man
who was able to devote just so much time to this study as he spared from the
uninterrupted succession of wars and victories in which his life has been
passed from childhood up to this time?
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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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